Hm, so it _is_ just me. Very strange.
Ah! I found it. In Preferences|MarcEditor, the Compile Records As MARC8 was marked. Unmarking that checkbox seems to fix the problem. I'm not sure how that got set.
Steve McDonald
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> Subject: Re: [MARCEDIT-L] MarcEdit compiler not compiling symbols and
> diacritics
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> I've done some testing (because your message spooked me) and I'm not
> seeing the same problem here using MarcEdit version 6.2.6001.15.
>
> I've tried exporting records from our catalog in Marc-8, editing them in the
> MarcEditor and re-making them. I've also tried extracting a single record from
> a file of Marc-8 records, editing and remaking. The diacritics look fine when I
> reload them into a test database.
>
> You don't by any chance have one of the "translate to [character set]" boxes
> checked in the Marc Tools window?
>
> Kathleen
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>
> Kathleen M. Haley
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MarcEdit support in technical and instructional matters
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of McDonald, Stephen
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 10:25 AM
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> Subject: [MARCEDIT-L] MarcEdit compiler not compiling symbols and
> diacritics
>
> I am seeing a strange problem, which I am surprised no one has reported.
> Either something very strange is going on with my machine or there is a
> major bug. MarcEdit does not seem to be compiling symbols and diacritics.
>
> I was editing records in MarcEdit and loading them into Millennium this
> morning. Once the records were in Millennium, I noticed that they contained
> strings like "{copy}" and "{acute}" rather than the expected copyright symbol
> and diacritic mark. I tried upgrading to the most recent version of
> Millennium, and tried testing again. I am still seeing this problem.
>
> Here is how I tested. I found an old MARC file that I had edited in MarcEdit
> and loaded into the ILS months ago. I verified that the record in Millennium
> contained a copyright symbol, confirming that the MARC file which was
> loaded was fine. The MARC file has not been edited since then. I confirmed
> that it was still fine by test loading the record again; the copyright symbol
> appears in the resulting record in Millennium. Then I used MarcEdit to
> extract one record from the file, and compiled the single record to .mrc
> format. Then I tried loading the single record. The symbol comes out as
> {copy} rather than the copyright symbol.
>
> It looks like MarcEdit is not compiling the diacritics and symbols.
>
> Steve McDonald
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