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Re: [PATCH] Locales: Cyrillic -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #2872] re-submission for 2.29

Hi,

On 2018-10-09 19:10, Marko Myllynen wrote:
> 
> One thing that might be helpful here could be something like:
> 
> $ echo ж | LC_ALL=fi_FI.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT_FORCE
> ž
> 
> That is, force transliteration of each character (if defined) even if
> it's part of the target character set. AFAICS this is not currently
> possible.
FWIW, this is currently not possible with iconv(1) but uconv(1) supports
this with -x (AFAICS it's using ICU not glibc locale data):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/uconv
https://linux.die.net/man/1/uconv
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/master/icu4c/source/extra/uconv

Cheers,

-- 
Marko Myllynen
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