Posted on 2009-03-31 11:43:44-07 by tlwit
ISBN, EAN and UTF8
Gh, am i really the first one? :P
Hi, i was looking for something to try to "automatically" archive and manage my ebook collection and i found this :)
I've some problem with categories and subjects but i need to improve my Perl-Fu for that :P
We can "lookup" ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 codes..is there any way to search for EAN codes too? Any hints?
Just another thing, i was trying my script when:

... Wide character in print at prova.pl line 22.
Titolo: About Balls point curve
Publisher: National Library of Canada
ISBN: 0315075716
Authors: by Marc Joseph Richard
Summary:
...

i tried with:
use Encode; .. decode_utf8($book->get_name);
without success. Any advice? is webservice::ISBNDB utf8 aware? Thanks, greetings from Italy
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