> 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".
> >
and Jim Agenbroad replied on 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.
>
Which is how it is.
And indeed, to have the non-spacing code following the letter would make it
a "backspacing" code, wouldn't it? IMHO that is a bad idea, but it is the
UNICODE concept, alas. Not the USMARC concept, nor ours. As yet.
B.E.
Bernhard Eversberg
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