[Bug localedata/2872] New: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails

[edi at gmx dot de]

Hello,

I tried to convert some text from Cyrillic (UTF-8) to ASCII, using the
//translit flag. However, it fails badly, all chars are just replaced with ?. It
seems to be independent from my current locale, I can set en_US.UTF-8 or
de_DE.UTF-8 or ru_RU.UTF-8, it still fails.

Transliteration of latin seems to work, though:

echo Müßte асдфасфд | LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//translit
Muesste ????????
echo Müßte асдфасфд | LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//translit
Musste ????????

I had a "discussion" with a Debian maintainer of glibc, who indicated that the
problem is in the locale which controls the transliterations... but, from my
POV, there should be a default fallback when there is no other transliteration
scheme. And I remember that it has been working with glibc some months or years ago.

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           Summary: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.3.6
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
        AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: edi at gmx dot de
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2872

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