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066 - Character Sets Present (NR)

MARC 21 Community Information - Concise

2007

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


066	##$a(N


066	##$a$1


066	##$b$)1


066	##$b)Q


066	##$c)2

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