It is _supposed_ to go in as a string. These are HTML codes for characters that don't have an equivalent in MARC 8--there is no defined way to represent them in MARC 8. What you need to check is whether your public interface will display the strings properly to the public. Most major ILS systems will display those strings as appropriate diacritic characters just fine.
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Nope, in our system it goes in as the string. We have many of these in our catalog now because I didn't stumble across the problem until after I had imported thousands of records. ASP used to offer update files that were already encoded in M8 but they no longer do so.
Anyone else have other suggestions? I've used find-and-replace to put in {macr}, {acute}, {grave}, etc., but a lot of the codes are unique, requiring manual editing after research to find what is supposed to be there. I've gone into corresponding OCLC records and seen that ASP DID paste HTML in there in some cases, though the WorldCat records and ASP-supplied records are not always identical.
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The ĭ is a correct representation of UTF8 characters not represented in the MARC8 character set. This is how LC provides backwards compatibility between UTF8 and MARC8. Your ILS should support the syntax -- this has been documented for almost 10 years now. You can sometimes substitute these values for other MARC8 codes, but MarcEdit doesn't do that for you. It does a direct character to character translation.
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Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] Alexander Street Press diacritics problem
Is anyone out there using MarcEdit to edit MARC records supplied by Alexander Street Press? I'm downloading records from their website, not from OCLC.
Alexander Street Press supplies the records in UTF-8 format but our ILS database is in MARC-8 so I have to convert them. I can't tell if the source file contains bad data or the UTF8-to-MARC8 conversion is failing. I get stuff like this, where some of the diacritics convert correctly and some
don't:
=100 1\$aShostakovich, Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich,$d1906-1975,$ecomposer.
=245 00$aString Quartets /$cJan{acute}aček, Szymanowski.
=511 0\$aCzech Chamber Philharmonic ; Vojtěch Spurn{acute}y, conductor.
These appear all over the record, in headings, in titles, in contents notes.
I get this whether I convert the file before I make other edits or after, creating a separate converted file. Sometimes the string corresponds to spaces, dashes, quotation marks or other marks of punctuation, as if it was copied directly from HTML. But the source file in UTF-8 never has these weird strings.
I've had other people tell me that they convert ASP files to MARC-8 and don't have this problem. Has anyone on this list encountered the problem?
Did you find a workaround?
I'm currently working on a file of 1183 bibs and there are 779 fields with these little landmines in them. So, not a small problem.
Thanks, Elaine
Elaine Donnelly
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