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Re: [Koha-devel] Re: MARC character encoding


From: paul POULAIN
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Re: MARC character encoding
Date: Wed Jan 22 07:11:03 2003
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Ed Summers a écrit:

It's trully a pain...

In MARC21, the "à" is coded \xe1\x61.
In UNIMARC, it's coded... \xc1\x61
And that's the same for all "escaped" characters :-((((((((

Worst than this...
The \xe1 character in UNIMARC means... Æ, so it's possible to find \xe1\x61 in UNIMARC, it means Æa
It's really a nightmare to manage !!!

I end with a question : is there in a MARC record a way to know wether it's unimarc, marc21, or another marc flavor. I've found nothing in the marc leader, and don't think there is one (which is definetly bad thing if i'm right)

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)





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