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. MARC 21 does not use the ASCII spacing equivalents of the ANSEL nonspacing graphic characters to encode diacritical marks associated with alphabetic characters. The nonspacing graphic characters that are used in conjunction with ASCII spacing graphic characters appear in the ANSEL character set in columns E-F (8-bit, G1 set).

image\DOTNAVY.gif In the Arabic character set, nonspacing characters appear in columns 4-7, and F (8-bit set).

image\DOTNAVY.gif In the Greek set, nonspacing characters appear in column 2.

image\DOTNAVY.gif In the Hebrew character set, nonspacing characters appear in column 4 (8-bit, G0 set).

In a character string, these nonspacing characters precede the character that they modify. When a graphic character requires multiple character modifiers, they are entered in the order in which they appear, reading left to right (or right to left with right-to-left scripts) and top to bottom.

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Part 1: MARC-8 Environment (Character Sets)

Character Sets