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/