[Koha] Bulkmarcimport and special characteres

MJ Ray mjr at phonecoop.coop
Fri Nov 10 22:44:37 NZDT 2006


Joshua Ferraro noted:
> >   iconv -f iso-8859-15 -t utf-8 -o outfile.marc infile.marc
> Actually, this may work for UNIMARC, but it will completely corrupt a
> MARC21 file because MARC21 uses MARC8 encoding (and I doubt iconv

I was assuming the file had been corrupted already, from the
description of the problem.  I could be wrong.

It's quite right that iconv doesn't know MARC8 and a quick look didn't 
help suggest how to add it.  Cindy Murdock's marc2xml|xml2marc solution 
sounds a good idea.

Hope that explains,
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