月を見て綺麗だねと言ったけど
あなたしか見えてなかった
あの光はね、私たちの闇を照らすため
真っ黒の画用紙に空けた穴～

Wai-con was a blast.  Click above for my photos, which will explain better than any words.

I might as well not post this because the target audience has to be under 100 people worldwide (of which how many will read this post?) but just in-case, right?

If you don’t know what MARC-8 is, stop reading here.

If you never wanted to convert from UTF-8 *to* MARC-8 (why the hell would you want to anyway?), stop reading here.

If you are happy with MarcEdit’s broken MARC-8 output, stop reading here.

If you are still interested, here is a .NET port inspired by the Perl MARC::Charset package to do unidirectional conversion.  Optimised for performance with multi-thread support for multiple input files.  Benchmarks to process around 80mb/s of text with 4 threads on a q6600 equiv.  The code (that you need to call) should be easy enough to understand.  No binaries provided, just build from source.

私の知らないところで傷ついてはいませんか？
誰も見えないところで泣いてはいませんか？

涙は人に見られて初めて形になるの
涙は人に見られて初めて輝きだすの
です