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

[Marko Myllynen]

Hi,

On 2013-10-17 17:17, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> Looking at the current tables I see these for Æ (U00C6) and Ö (U00D6):
>>
>> translit_neutral:<U00C6> "<U0041><U0045>"
>> translit_combining:<U00D6> <U004F>
>>
>> For Ö Unicode specifies decomposition (U004F U0308) but not so for Æ/Ø.
>> So it's a bit unclear to me are all the three rules above as expected?
> 
> For Æ, the usual transliteration is indeed AE, corresponding to the OE
> transliteration of Ø. I'm less sure about the Ö -> O rule (since that's
> not used in Danish), but I suspect transliteration to O is what would be
> expected...

yes, for "Ö" -> "O" is correct but if I read you patch correctly, you
were adding decomposition for Ø (which has no decomposition in Unicode)
but then OTOH decomposition is missing for Ö (which has decomposition in
Unicode).

Cheers,

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Marko Myllynen