How transliteration works?

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi again,

Urmas wrote:

> Why does locale involved in this? It means that I will have
> different results using f.ex. "ASCII//TRANSLIT" as destination
> charset when using different locales?

Yes, transliteration is locale-dependent.  For example:

 $ echo coöperation | LANG=en_US.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
 cooperation
 $ echo Hölder | LANG=en_DE.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
 Hoelder

Which makes a certain sense.  Transliteration tends to preserve
the pronunciation of a word.

Perhaps the "recode" program would give results more to your taste.