Re: it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)

From: Eric Hellman <eric_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:07:29 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Ha!

One of the things OpenURL 1.0 "fixed" was to wire in UTF-8 encoding. Much of the MARC data in circulation also uses UTF-8 encoding. Some of it even uses it correctly.

On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:54, Eric Hellman <eric_at_hellman.net> wrote:
>> May I just add here that of all the things we've talked about in these threads, perhaps the only thing that will still be in use a hundred years from now will be Unicode. إن شاء الله
> 
> May I remind you that we're still using MARC. Maybe you didn't mean in
> the library world ... *rimshot*
> 
> 
> Alex
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