066 - Character Sets Present (NR)
MARC 21 Classification - 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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the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.
Used in records encoded with characters from sets other than
ISO 10646 (or Unicode) to specify the character sets for data
content that are present in the record. 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)
Intermediate and Final characters of the escape sequence
that designates and invokes the default G0 character set.
$b - Primary G1 character set (NR)
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)
Intermediate and Final characters of each escape sequence
that designates an alternate graphic character set used in
a record.
Examples
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