MARC8 and UTF8 – what does it mean? - MARS Authority Control. Last week we looked at the Anatomy of an Authority Record, but what if we look even deeper?
Both Bibliographic and Authority records are essentially text, made up of characters formed either in MARC8 or UTF8. But what does that mean, and whats the difference? The MARC-8 character set uses 8-bit characters, meaning it natively displays ASCII and ANSEL text. UTF-8 and Unicode Standards. Unicode Consortium.