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Why utf-8 when we have MARC-8? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8
by ahi 2y ago
Why utf-8 when we have MARC-8? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8
- moefh 2y agoI had never heard of MARC-8 before, but after a quick google search: "There are no defined MARC-8 character sets for Armenian, Bengali, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Syriac, Tamil or Thai."[0] "If a character is not representable in MARC-8 of a MARC-21 record, then UTF-8 must be used instead."[1] [0] https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Connexion/Connexion_client/International_cataloging/Get_started/10Valid_character_sets_for_supported_scripts https://help.oclc.org/Metadata_Services/Connexion/Connexion_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARC-8