Hi Galen, On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Galen Charlton <galen.charlton@liblime.com> wrote:
Very briefly, Koha 3's C4::Charset module's MarcToUTF8Record routine should give you some ideas. You can use that as the core of a routine to convert a file that contains mixed Latin-1 and UTF-8 records to UTF-8. However, it will not correctly handle a MARC record that has *both* Latin-1 and UTF-8, but could be modified to test each field and subfield to see if it contains UTF-8 or Latin-1.
Thanks Galen! I have read the code of the MarcToUTF8Record routine, like you suggested, and it does seem to be a very good starting point. If anyone else is curious about the MarcToUTF8Record routine, you may read the (current) source code in the Charset.pm file of Koha 3 (Beta 2), which is also available - in its "current" form - in the "git" web site - http://git.koha.org/ - specifically at: http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=blob;f=C4/Charset.pm I'll try to start experimenting with this when I get back to work on Monday (Friday, 25th of April is a National Holiday in Portugal). Best wishes, Ricardo Dias Marques lists AT ricmarques DOT net