Re: how to test the new glibc-2.2's UTF-8 locales

[Klaus Weide <kweide@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Bruno Haible wrote:

> What works: (I hope I missed nothing, Ulrich!)
    .....
>   - gettext automatically converts the translations to the current locale's
>     encoding.
> 
> What is still missing:
>   - Transliteration of accented and special punctuation characters during
>     a conversion UTF-8 -> ISO-8859-* or UTF-8 -> ASCII.
   .....

What happens when gettext tries to automatically convert, but conversion
fails (because transliteration would be needed)?  Does gettext fall back
to the untranslated string, or is there some other recovery?

   Klaus

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