It is fine to use MARC-8 as the communication encoding on a z39.50 connection. Most MARC21 sources will use this. This should not be confused with the display or underlying storage encoding that is surely not MARC-8 on either end.<br>
<br>--Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/16 Harris, Gary, DCA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gary.Harris@state.nm.us">Gary.Harris@state.nm.us</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><span><font face="Calibri">Greetings-</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Calibri">Opinions please. MARC
records we plan to load into our Koha database are encoded in the MARC-8 format.
This document tells us to use UTF-8 encoded records.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?do=show&id=encodingscratchpad" target="_blank">http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?do=show&id=encodingscratchpad</a> (nice
work, Josh, but we have test loaded some records in MARC-8 that seem to work
fine, but we respect your knowledge, so now we are questioning ourselves as we
move closer to a production environment)</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Calibri">We have read many items
on this issue. Any additional opinions on what is the correct thing to do
will be appreciated. It is my intention to leave this question open-ended in
hopes of getting several points of view from the Koha community.
Thanks.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Calibri">Gary</font></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: teal; font-family: Calibri;">+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri;">Gary L.
Harris, M.L.S. M.A.<br>Director, Technical Services
Bureau<br>New Mexico State Library<br>1209 Camino Carlos Rey<br>Santa Fe, NM
87507<br>(505) 476-9730<br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Calibri;"><a title="blocked::mailto:gary.harris@state.nm.us" href="mailto:gary.harris@state.nm.us" target="_blank">gary.harris@state.nm.us</a><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri;">"You never change
things by fighting the existing reality.<br>To change something, build a new
model that makes the<br>existing model obsolete."<br>-- Buckminster
Fuller</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue; font-family: Calibri;"></span></p></div></div>
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