> Those of you who work with bibliographic records, especially MARC
> records, will know that in the good old ASCII days the code point used
> for subfield mark was Hex 1F, and when a visual representation was
> needed, the dollar character, $, was used, (at least in the UK).
>
> I am now endeavouring to ascertain if there is an emerging de facto
> standard among UNICODE users on what code point and glyph to use for
> the subfield mark.
>
> Any news of such a developing standard would be most welcome.
>
>
> Chris White
> Systems Analyst
> The British Library
>
>
You can just continue to use the same control codes, that is 001F instead
of 1F. This part of the UNICODE character set is not regulated by ISO/IEC
10 646 but is rather by ISO/IEC 6420 - Control codes, as before.
This seems a little messy but is done intentionally. I can remember control
codes as a subject in at least one JTC 1/SC2 meeting....
Some relevant control codes:
Field Separator : dec 28 hex 001C
Group Separator : dec 29 hex 001D
Record Separator: dec 30 hex 001E
Unit Separator : dec 31 hex 001F
Kolbjørn Aambø, University of Oslo Library
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