066 - Character Sets Present (NR)
MARC 21 Community Information - 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This is an ARCHIVED VERSION of the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.
Specifies the character sets for data content in records
encoded with character sets other than ISO 10646 (or
Unicode).
Characters that make up the escape sequences, as well as
other details about character encoding of MARC records, are
described 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 identifying the primary character set composed of 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 identifying the primary extension character set
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 identifying an alternative character set used as
either G0 or G1 sets composed of 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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