[PATCH] Locales: Cyrillic -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #2872] re-submission for 2.29

[Marko Myllynen]

Hi,

On 2018-10-10 15:19, Egor Kobylkin wrote:
> On 10.10.2018 13:22, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>>> correct link https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=11303
>>
>> Although I haven't checked every rule this in general looks very good
>> (but see below). 
> 
>> Not sure do we want to add the few missing characters
>> mentioned at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script_in_Unicode,
>> e.g., one instantly notices that U+0400 is missing. (I wouldn't add at
>> least initially the more exotic characters, like the historic ones,
>> though.) Perhaps filing a bug or two for these cases for separate
>> consideration would be ok.
> 
> The question here is what should serve as their transliteration and
> transcription?

Not sure, so filing a separate bug about this once your patch is merged
might be the most suitable action for now, I don't think we want to
postpone merging your work further due to these non-ISO 9 cases.

>> I'm not sure this will work, no existing rule in translit_* files
>> contain two characters, I'd assume that the rule for U+0423 is applied
>> first and then the below rule is never used.
>>
>> % CYRILLIC UNDEFINED
>> <U0423><U0301> <U00DA>;"<U0055><U0060>"
>>
>> Perhaps this should be commented out or removed altogether if it's not
>> working as intended.
> 
> So yes, they are not processed. I would drop them to not to have special
> cases. But I am also fine with keeping them because all work is done
> already.
I'd probably drop them but I don't feel strongly about this either way.

Thanks for your efforts, I don't have any further comments, I'll leave
this now for Rafal and Mike to provide additional feedback and hopefully
merge soon.

Thanks,

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Marko Myllynen