svn commit: r341775 - in head: Mk/Uses converters/libiconv devel/gettext

[Tijl Coosemans]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:11:46 +0400 Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 31.01.2014 3:01, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>> And lack of //TRANSLIT isn't as bad as I initially thought it was because
>>> system iconv does transliteration by default.  It's just that the output
>>> is not as good as with libiconv.  The examples so far only involve ASCII
>>> and ISO-8859-1.  I do seem to get good transliteration with ISO-8859-15.
>> 
>> Transliteration by converting everything to '?' (that's all I got in my
>> testings with several charsets, including 8859-15) means transliteration
>> is simple not working, it isn't 'not as good as'. Despite of false
>> claims in the system iconv code, see just a definition of
>> transliteration term.
> 
> Just an example:
> # perl -e 'print "\xc1\n";' | iconv -f "ISO8859-15" -t "US-ASCII//TRANSLIT"
> ?
> iconv: warning: invalid characters: 1
> (what ever this warning does here?)
> 
> # perl -e 'print "\xc1\n";' | /usr/local/bin/iconv -f "ISO8859-15" -t "US-ASCII//TRANSLIT"
> 'A

These still involve US-ASCII.  Try these:

small i with macron: ī
# perl -e 'print "\xc4\xab\n";' | iconv -f "UTF-8" -t "ISO-8859-15//TRANSLIT"
i

small dutch ij: ij
# perl -e 'print "\xc4\xb3\n";' | iconv -f "UTF-8" -t "ISO-8859-15//TRANSLIT"
ij