On 22 July 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bigwood, David wrote:
> The extended ASCII character set, Latin-1, used in the old MARC systems was always something that was neglected to get mentioned and not at all obvious. Now that more systems are using UNICODE it should be less of a problem, all depends on your system and if you still have legacy data.
Isn't Marc-8 different than Latin-1 in how it handles accents?
At least that's how I read
http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/charsets/marc.html
... and I'd never argue with Michael about this. :)
Walter Lewis
who never met a character set he didn't wish he hadn't *had* to meet
Received on Fri Jul 22 2011 - 17:13:33 EDT