Introduction

General Conversion Issues

MARC 21 encoding marker

Escape sequences and MARC field 066

MARC subfield $6 (Linkage)

Combining characters (diacritics)

Directionality of text

Folding of certain MARC-8 Codes

Issues Specific to Converting Unicode to MARC-8

Lossy conversion to MARC-8 encoding

Lossless conversion to MARC-8 encoding

Enhancing the Unicode to MARC-8 conversion

Additional considerations for converting characters with combining marks

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Character Sets and Encoding Options