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Re: [PATCH][BZ 15593] Add transliteration data for "LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH STROKE" (Ã)


Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> writes:

> Having "Ã" -> "OE" transliteration rule seems like a good thing.

Agreed! :)

> Looking at the current tables I see these for à (U00C6) and à (U00D6):
>
> translit_neutral:<U00C6> "<U0041><U0045>"
> translit_combining:<U00D6> <U004F>
>
> For à Unicode specifies decomposition (U004F U0308) but not so for Ã/Ã.
> So it's a bit unclear to me are all the three rules above as expected?

For Ã, the usual transliteration is indeed AE, corresponding to the OE
transliteration of Ã. I'm less sure about the à -> O rule (since that's
not used in Danish), but I suspect transliteration to O is what would be
expected...

-Toke

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