[PING^2] Re: [PATCH] locale/C-translit.h.in: Greek -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #12031]

["Diego (Egor) Kobylkin" <egor at kobylkin dot com>]

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On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 1:26 PM, Diego (Egor) Kobylkin <egor@kobylkin.com> wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 9:31 AM, Diego (Egor) Kobylkin egor@kobylkin.com wrote:
> 

> > Dear locale maintainers,
> > fix the glibc bug 12031 "iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters" [1]
> > add Greek transliteration rows to locale/C-translit.h.in.
> > This work is done on the heels of the successfully committed patch for the
> > virtually the same bug [BZ #2872] but concerning Cyrillic characters. [2]
> > AFAIK there are many versions of transcription tables for Greek to ASCII
> > transcription. Given that current iconv logic can only translit one to many
> > but not many to many symbols we take the "Standard" part of
> > the Romanization_of_Greek#Modern_Greek table [3]
> > and only keep the one letter Greek graphems. That "standard" seems to be close to
> > the ELOT 743 indeed but not the same.
> > So we omit things like M and Μπ being transliterated as M and B accordingly.
> > Rather Μπ will be treated like two separate graphems and transliterated as Mp.
> > Here is the list of some standards I have collected so far. There doesn't seem
> > a way to harmonize them all into one. But if anyone want to propose a solution -
> > please do.
> > 

> > -   ΕΛΟΤ 743 https://www.teicrete.gr/users/kutrulis/Ergalia/ELOT743.htm Passports.
> > -   ISO 843 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_843
> > -   ALA-LC https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/greek.pdf Book titles.
> > -   BGN/PCGN http://libraries.ucsd.edu/bib/fed/USBGN_romanization.pdf
> > -   http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/Romanization/Romanization_Greek.pdf Geographical names.
> > 

> > Furthermore to cover the whole U0370-U03FF Greek/Coptic Unicode range I have
> > asked around and made a best effort transliteration for the rest of characters
> > not covered in above standards.
> > Should you have better sources for the actual translit entries please make sure to
> > send your feedback!
> > The patch is attached.
> > Best regards,
> > Egor Kobylkin
> > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12031 [1]
> > https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-07/msg00477.html [2]
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek#Modern_Greek [3]

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