On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Wes Brent wrote:
> For the display of diacritics, USMARC uses a technique known as
> nonspacing graphic characters. Nonspacing graphic characters are
> always used in conjunction with other spacing graphic characters. More
> than one nonspacing graphic character may be associated with one
> spacing graphic character. For example, using the USMARC ANSEL coding,
> the code for "a umlaut" would be HEX 62 (the lowercase a) followed by
> HEX E8 (ANSEL umlaut). In displaying, the umlaut should be directly
> over the "a".
>
Thursday, December 18, 1997
Contrary to the example above, in USMARC the code for one (or more)
diacritics always comes before the code for the letter being modifed. As
stated the umlaut would appear above the next character.
Regards,
Jim Agenbroad ( [log in to unmask] )
The above are purely personal opinions, not necessarily the official
views of any government or any agency of any.
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