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. --Joe 2009/3/16 Harris, Gary, DCA <Gary.Harris@state.nm.us>
Greetings-
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.
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?do=show&id=encodingscratchpad (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)
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.
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