gen

Overview ¶

Command gen produces tables_gen.go from the Library of Congress MARC-8 code tables (codetables.xml), the authoritative mapping between MARC-8 and Unicode.

The LoC file is a US Government work in the public domain. Run with:

go run ./internal/marc8/gen            # fetches the published XML
go run ./internal/marc8/gen path.xml   # uses a local copy

It emits one decode map per single-byte non-Latin set and a packed, base64 blob for the multibyte EACC (CJK) set. Basic Latin (ASCII) and Extended Latin (ANSEL) are hand-maintained in marc8.go and deliberately skipped here.