[PATCHv2] Update the localedata/locales/translit_* files to Unicode 7.0.0

Marko Myllynen myllynen@redhat.com
Tue Jun 16 15:53:00 GMT 2015


Hi,

On 2015-06-16 17:24, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> さんはかきました:
> 
>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Addition and fixes for translit_neutral
>>>
>>> +% LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG
>>> +<U014A> <U004E>
>>> +% LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG
>>> +<U014B> <U006E>
>>
>> Hmm, I presume NG/ng would be more expected than N/n here, but reading
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eng_%28letter%29 doesn't give a clear
>> answer either way, what do you think?
> 
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/transforms/Latin-ASCII.xml#L54
> 
> has:
> 
> 54	                        <tRule>Ŋ → N ; # 014A;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG</tRule>
> 55	                        <tRule>ŋ → n ; # 014B;LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG</tRule>
> 
> "ng" might be phonetically closer but the main spirit of the "neutral"
> transliteration to ASCII seems to be something like "drop the accents",
> not "approximate the pronunciation using ASCII".

I see, looks ok then.

Thanks,

-- 
Marko Myllynen



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