Prepare test for latin-1 -> utf-8 with combo chars

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+Added support for a new character set MARC8s identical to MARC8 except
+that it converts combined characters to single Unicode characters in the
+Latin-1 range (when possible).
+
+--- 2.1.18 2006/04/24
+
+ASN.1 compiler 0.4: generates brief Doxygen file header for 
+generated .h/.c files. 
+
+Utility yaz_iconv now supports conversion to MARC-8.
+
 New facilities for the MARC module. The reading - and writing of
 content are separate methods for the yaz_marc_t handle. The following
 read functions are available: yaz_marc_read_iso2709 (Reads MARC in