[Koha] problem importing MARC records, probably a character set issue

[Jeffrey LePage]

People,

I've been working on converting an Athena-exported bunch of MARC records to a format Koha likes.  My latest script seems to convert everything nicely except...

...Around the 117th entry the import into catalogue fails.  On inspection I detected a non-ascii character in the 117th record.  Specifically, it's an 'e' with an accent, as in Andre'.  This is the first time in the file that a non-ascii character ( a character above 127 ) occurs.

Has anyone had experience with this?  

I'm using MARC::Record, MARC::Field, etc. to do the conversion.  Interestingly, the MARC files that come directly from Athena import just fine (except that the barcode info doesn't get imported because of the 852/952 issue).

I'll post more details after I get some sleep.




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