Changes from previous:
1.33 Thu Aug 4 23:25:14 EDT 2011
- move build_db() to separate .PL script so that module can be
built even if Class::Accessor and other dependencies aren't
available before Makefile.PL is run.
- list GDBM_File as an explicit dependency, assome distributions
like ActivePerl don't include it even though it is a
core module.
1.32 Thu Jun 30 16:38:32 EDT 2011
- make sure utf8 flag set in output of marc8_to_utf8
1.31 Thu Sep 30 10:53:00 EDT 2010
- minor revision to get v1.3 Changes into the CPAN distro :-)
1.3 Wed Sep 29 10:26:49 EDT 2010
- added latest codetables.xml from
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/codetables.xml (thanks to
Mark Muehlhaeusler for noticing that there were some Arabic updates.
I reapplied the changes that François Charette suggested in v0.98
which are still not present in LC's codetable :-(
This package was submited as part of PR pkg/43929 which adds the Koha Integrated Library System
submitted by Edgar Fuß
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MARC::Charset allows you to turn MARC-8 encoded strings into UTF-8 strings.
MARC-8 is a single byte character encoding that predates unicode, and allows
you to put non-Roman scripts in MARC bibliographic records.