Cataloger's Reference Shelf
MARC 21 Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and Exchange
Media
Introduction (Character Sets, Part 1: General Character Set Issues)
Character set issues that pertain to both the MARC-8 and Unicode environments are dealt with here. In this section, references to Unicode imply its UTF-8 encoding form, the only one approved for use in MARC 21. References to a particular Unicode character will be expressed in the conventional way, as a hexadecimal number identifying the code point, not as a representation of the individual octets in the UTF-8 transformation. See Part 3 for a discussion of UTF-8.
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