Feb
10
2010
ARC Notes – Character set conversion issues
Posted by ses in Metadata, tags: ARC, Archival Research Catalog, NARAThere are a number of problems in the ARC data files that are caused by truncation of 16 bit unicode punctuation to 8-bits. There may be other undetected truncation errors where the truncated value is a legitimate UTF character, but this seems unlikely.
I have written code to work around this problem; it’s a fairly simple fix.
There are also about a dozen records that are ill-formed- the contain
Scary thought for the day:
Imagine if Oracle made an ILS

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