On Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:11 AM, Jeff Edmunds wrote;
>Recently I've been experiencing glitches trying to open or break *some* .mrc files. For the specific file in question (attached--40 records for Chinese ebooks) I get error messages when I use MarcBreaker and MarcValidator, as well as when I try to open the .mrc file directly in the MarcEditor. (Currently using MarcEdit version 5.9.4880.40351)
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>Can anyone (perhaps someone with more experience than I with Chinese character sets) open this file and or convert it to .mrk format? Are there errors in the data that are causing the glitch or is there something I'm missing with regard to opening/viewing the file?

When I open the file with Notepad++, in the 1st record, I see characters "RS""GS"GS" together (end of field and end of record characters). The other records end with just RS-GS (there seems to be an extra "GS" character in the 1st record. After deleting that extra GS character, MarcEdit converts 40 records with a red text (error message). Recompiling the resulting .mrk file from within MarcEdit back to .mrc and then converting the .mrc to .mrk produces a black conversion message (no errors). Of course, I'm not sure whether the 40 records converted the first successful time contain all of the data they are supposed to contain, or if something important has been lost.

I hope this helps,

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