066 - Character Sets Present (NR)
MARC 21 Bibliographic - Concise
2008
This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the
2008 electronic edition of the MARC 21 Concise
Formats. Please see loc.gov/marc/concise/
for the most up-to-date version of the electronic MARC 21
Concise Formats.
Information that indicates that the records were encoded
with characters from sets other than ISO 10646 (or Unicode). A
detailed description of the standard escape sequences used in
MARC records is provided in MARC 21
Specifications for Record Structure, Character Sets, and
Exchange Media.
Indicators
First - Undefined
# - Undefined
Second - Undefined
# - Undefined
Subfield Codes
$a - Primary G0 character set (NR)
Code is the Intermediate and Final characters of the escape
sequence that designates and invokes the default G0
character set.
$b - Primary G1 character set (NR)
Code is composed of the Intermediate and Final characters
of the escape sequence that designates and invokes the
default G1 character set.
$c - Alternate G0 or G1 character set (R)
Code is the Intermediate and Final characters of each
escape sequence that will be used to designate an alternate
graphic character set used in the record.
Examples
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