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On 3/9/06, David Loy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sorry to bug this list about such a peripheral topic, but is anyone
> aware of public (or educationally) available java that performs complete
> translation of marc-8 to unicode? Hopefully this would be independent
> code that does not require an entire Marc handling system to work.

You might want to take a look at the marc4j package which reportedly has
"support for data conversions from MARC-8 ANSEL, ISO5426 or ISO6937 to
UCS/Unicode and back". I imagine you could extract the bits you need
given the license is liberal enough.

//Ed

[1] http://marc4j.tigris.org/