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titleAPPROVED
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Area coveredCataloging
Prepared byCataloging Task Force
Adapted fromOrbis Cascade Alliance Collaborative Technical Services Team


Background

Best practices for dealing with numeric character references in records using non-Latin scripts. To be used in conjunction with the policy “Numeric Character References.”

Best practice recommendations

Non-MARC-8 scripts exported in MARC-8 data format are saved in Numeric Character Reference (NCR) format (see Numeric Character Reference for more information). However, all settings for Alma should be UTF-8 Unicode.

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