MARC::Charset 0.95 review

MARC::Charset is a Perl module to convert MARC-8 encoded strings to UTF-8. SYNOPSIS # import the marc8_to_utf8 function

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 182K Developer: Ed Summers

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MARC::Charset is a Perl module to convert MARC-8 encoded strings to UTF-8.

SYNOPSIS

# import the marc8_to_utf8 function
use MARC::Charset 'marc8_to_utf8';

# prepare STDOUT for utf8
binmode(STDOUT, 'utf8');

# print out some marc8 as utf8
print marc8_to_utf8($marc8_string);

MARC::Charset allows you to turn MARC-8 encoded strings into UTF-8 strings. MARC-8 is a single byte character encoding that predates unicode, and allows you to put non-Roman scripts in MARC bibliographic records.

Requirements:
Perl