> A MARC-8 sequence places a combining diacritical mark BEFORE the letter
> it's supposed to combine. Whereas Unicode syntax is to put it AFTER the
> letter it's supposed to combine with.
>
> Hence for example the letter: ZÌ
> is produced by the MARC-8 Sequence:
> 75 5A (macron below + "Z")
> but
> 0331 005A ("Z" + Combining Macron below) in Unicode.
>
> I believe if you don't account for this in your UTF-8 transformation, you
> will get either no combining or combining with the wrong character.
Just FYI in case anyone is curious about what MARC::Charset does, to_utf8()
will take care of repositioning the diacritics from before to after the
character that they modify.
//Ed
