Date:         Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:20:43 EDT
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From:         James Agenbroad <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: Character Repertoire Expansion TIme? (2)
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 Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Dear Gary,
     Thank you for your quick, thoughtful and  thought-provoking response. 
     I think at least at LC Endeavor's implementation  of Unicode has (or 
had) a filter to prevent distribution of either fields or  records with 
characters without a MARC-8 equivalent--I'm not sure  which. I'm glad that some vendors 
have implemented more of Unicode. I  have to wonder what recipients of 
records with non-MARC-8 characters do,  assuming such records are sometimes 
distributed? Am I right in  thinking OCLC does not distribute records with Thai and 
Tamil  characters?
     Perhaps, as you suggest,  I will ask Sally if  she thinks a MARBI 
proposal is needed.
     Regards,
          Jim Agenbroad ( [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask])  
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