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Re: RE: Use of bind_textdomain_codeset()

At 18:20 11/10/2000 +0200, =?UTF-8?B?S2FybHNzb24gS2VudCAtIGtla2E=?= wrote: 
And in which part(s) of the world would that be?  Dropping the ring above
(which is NOT a degree mark) generally changes the meaning of the word
containing it, either to a word with a completely different meaning,
or to a plain misspelling.

Norway, for one.

For many years, the standard transliteration for use in email addresses and domain names has been the single-character substitution of æøå -> aoa.

Which brings a point - transliteration is not only locale and user-preference dependent, it is context dependent.

One solution does not fit all.

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