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066 - Character Sets Present (NR)


MARC 21 LITE Bibliographic
April 2008

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.

[Link to MARC 21 Concise Formats]

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.
$c - Alternate G0 or G1 character set (R)
Code is the Intermediate and Final characters of each escape sequence that will be used to designate an alternate graphic character set used in the record.
Examples
066 ##$a(N
066 ##$a$1
066 ##$b$)1

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