On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:42:15 EDT, James Agenbroad <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
[snip]
>I believe Joan suggested some [technical problems that need to be solved]
>a while ago but they're not at hand and may not be what the list owner
>thinks most needs our attention.
I searched the Uniocde-MARC list archives, and the message Jim is referring
to was posted in October 2005, thread number 5. Overview of tasks.
There was only one response, from Karen Coyle who wrote:
>This is a very good list of issues. It seems that it would be to our
benefit to prioritize them, because there are some dependencies. For
example, if we had an answer to #4, then it might be easier for us to answer
#1 because we'd know what fields the Unicode characters could appear in.
>kc
The topics outlined in my October 2005 posting are listed below. Note that
topics 1, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 10 have multiple aspects, so are subdivided in the
original posting.
1. Moving Data between Systems
2. Fonts
3. Forbidden Characters
4. Characters in components of Model A and Model B records
5. Combining Characters
6. Non-Filing Characters
7. Sorting, Filing Order, Collation
8. Scripts in authority records
9. Comparison
10. Have items from Proposal 98-18 been specified?
11. Should records containing non-Roman script still be identified?
OCLC and RLG are addressing Subtopic 1a. Moving data from UTF-8 to MARC-8.
-- Joan Aliprand
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