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Titlecase, i.e. istitle() and title(), is buggy when the string
includes combining diacritical marks.
>>> u'H\u0301ngh'.istitle()
False
>>> u'H\u0301ngh'.title()
u'H\u0301Ngh'
>>>
The string given already is in titlecase so that the following result
is expected:
>>> u'H\u0301ngh'.istitle()
True
>>> u'H\u0301ngh'.title()
u'H\u0301ngh'
>>>
UTR#21 Case Mappings defines the following algorithm for titlecase
mapping [1]:
For each character C, find the preceding character B. 
 ignore any intervening case-ignorable characters when finding B.
If B exists, and is cased 
 map C to UCD_lower(C)
Otherwise, 
 map C to UCD_title(C)
The class of 'case-ignorable' is defined under [2] and includes
Nonspacing Marks (Mn) as listed in [3]. This includes diacritcal marks
and others. These should not be handled similar to spaces which they
currently are, thus dividing words.
A patch including the above test case is attached.
[1]
http://unicode.org/reports/tr21/tr21-5.html#Case_Conversion_of_Strings
[2] http://unicode.org/reports/tr21/tr21-5.html#Definitions
[3] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Mn/list.htm