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| YAZ character conversion |
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2006-11-21 22:16:43 |
At 03:56 PM 11/21/2006, you wrote:
>David,
>I am interested in using the portions of YAZ relating to
>MARC-8/UTF-8 character conversion. Does the YAZ library
rely on the
>XML conversion file provided by the Library of Congress?
>
>Regards
>Gary L. Anderson
Gary,
Your question is over my head, so I a forwarding it to the
YAZ list
where there are likely to be people who can answer it.
David
David Dorman
US Marketing Manager, Index Data
52 Whitman Ave.
West Hartford, Connecticut 06107
dorman indexdata.com
860-389-1568 or toll free 866-489-1568
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| YAZ character conversion |
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2006-11-22 08:57:38 |
David Dorman wrote:
> At 03:56 PM 11/21/2006, you wrote:
>> David,
>> I am interested in using the portions of YAZ
relating to MARC-8/UTF-8
>> character conversion. Does the YAZ library rely on
the XML conversion
>> file provided by the Library of Congress?
Yes and no. Any application (including one based on YAZ)
receiving XML
records from the LoC Z39.50 server must assume that it has
done the
MARC-8 to UTF-8 conversion in a proper manner.
OTOH, if a client fetches MARC21/USMARC in MARC-8 it must do
the
conversion itself on the client-side. YAZ + MARC4J includes
facilities
to convert from MARC-8 to UTF-8. And both has facilities to
convert from
MARC21 to MARCXML as well.
/ Adam
>> Regards
>> Gary L. Anderson
>
> Gary,
>
> Your question is over my head, so I a forwarding it to
the YAZ list
> where there are likely to be people who can answer it.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
> David Dorman
> US Marketing Manager, Index Data
> 52 Whitman Ave.
> West Hartford, Connecticut 06107
> dormanindexdata.com
> 860-389-1568 or toll free 866-489-1568
> fax: 860-561-5613
>
> INDEX DATA Means Business
> for Open Source and Open Standards
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> www.indexdata.com
>
>
>
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| YAZ character conversion |
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2006-11-22 13:37:18 |
David Dorman wrote:
> At 03:56 PM 11/21/2006, you wrote:
>
>> David,
>> I am interested in using the portions of YAZ
relating to MARC-8/UTF-8
>> character conversion. Does the YAZ library rely on
the XML
>> conversion file provided by the Library of
Congress?
>
The YAZ library MARC8/UTF-8 conversion does rely on the
mappings made
available by LOC. One side effect of this is that diacritics
in MARC-8
are mapped to composed character sequences in UTF-8, which
is just fine
in many applications, but it can confuse browsers -- you'll
sometimes
see diacrics not perfectly aligned with the base character,
for
instance. If you specify the source character set as
'marc8s', the YAZ
character conversion utility will map those MARC8 diacritics
that exist
in Latin-1 to precomposed characters in UTF-8.. This works
better in
browsers, if you know that you'll mostly be working with
Western scripts.
Cheers,
--Sebastian
>>
>> Regards
>> Gary L. Anderson
>
>
> Gary,
>
> Your question is over my head, so I a forwarding it to
the YAZ list
> where there are likely to be people who can answer it.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
> David Dorman
> US Marketing Manager, Index Data
> 52 Whitman Ave.
> West Hartford, Connecticut 06107
> dormanindexdata.com
> 860-389-1568 or toll free 866-489-1568
> fax: 860-561-5613
>
> INDEX DATA Means Business
> for Open Source and Open Standards
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> www.indexdata.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Yazlist mailing list
> Yazlistlists.indexdata.dk
> http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yaz
list
>
>
--
Sebastian Hammer, Index Data
quinnindexdata.com www.indexdata.com
Ph: (603) 209-6853 Fax: (866) 383-4485
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| YAZ character conversion |
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2006-11-22 13:37:18 |
David Dorman wrote:
> At 03:56 PM 11/21/2006, you wrote:
>
>> David,
>> I am interested in using the portions of YAZ
relating to MARC-8/UTF-8
>> character conversion. Does the YAZ library rely on
the XML
>> conversion file provided by the Library of
Congress?
>
The YAZ library MARC8/UTF-8 conversion does rely on the
mappings made
available by LOC. One side effect of this is that diacritics
in MARC-8
are mapped to composed character sequences in UTF-8, which
is just fine
in many applications, but it can confuse browsers -- you'll
sometimes
see diacrics not perfectly aligned with the base character,
for
instance. If you specify the source character set as
'marc8s', the YAZ
character conversion utility will map those MARC8 diacritics
that exist
in Latin-1 to precomposed characters in UTF-8.. This works
better in
browsers, if you know that you'll mostly be working with
Western scripts.
Cheers,
--Sebastian
>>
>> Regards
>> Gary L. Anderson
>
>
> Gary,
>
> Your question is over my head, so I a forwarding it to
the YAZ list
> where there are likely to be people who can answer it.
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
> David Dorman
> US Marketing Manager, Index Data
> 52 Whitman Ave.
> West Hartford, Connecticut 06107
> dormanindexdata.com
> 860-389-1568 or toll free 866-489-1568
> fax: 860-561-5613
>
> INDEX DATA Means Business
> for Open Source and Open Standards
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> www.indexdata.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Yazlist mailing list
> Yazlistlists.indexdata.dk
> http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yaz
list
>
>
--
Sebastian Hammer, Index Data
quinnindexdata.com www.indexdata.com
Ph: (603) 209-6853 Fax: (866) 383-4485
_______________________________________________
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