Day: February 14, 2016
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MarcEdit: Thinking about Charactersets and MARC
The topic of charactersets is likely something most North American catalogers rarely give a second thought to. Our tools, systems — they all are built around a very anglo-centric world-view that assumes data is primarily structured in MARC21, and recorded in either MARC-8 or UTF8. However, when you get outside of North America, the question…