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After retrieving a set of records via Z39.50, I noticed that the characters were encoded in something other than MARC8 (looking at the raw MARC in a text editor shows Windows-style composed characters, such as "Kairós" (instead of {acute}o) and "©" (instead of {copy})). I figure they are likely in UTF8/Unicode, despite LDR/09 being coded blank rather than a. Using MARC Tools->Tools->Character Conversion Tools, I converted from UTF8 to MARC8 and the diacritics seemed to change to their normal (for one used to using MARC8) appearance.

I'm guessing there is probably nothing I can do to ask the Z39.50 server to send MARC8 records, so we'll need to deal with converting the format once the records have been downloaded. Does MarcEdit offer this functionality through an API (or some other way that doesn't require direct human interaction with the files)? If so, how would this be implemented?

Thank you for your assistance,

Bryan Baldus
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses
1-800-323-4241x402
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