[Koha] Latin1 vs. Unicode (UTF-8)

[Harris, Gary, DCA]

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.
 
Gary
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Gary L. Harris,   M.L.S.   M.A.
Director, Technical Services Bureau
New Mexico State Library
1209 Camino Carlos Rey
Santa Fe, NM 87507
(505) 476-9730
gary.harris at state.nm.us
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