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Re: Transliteration for use in UTF-8 locales

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Subject: Re: Transliteration for use in UTF-8 locales
From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:41:14 +0200
In-reply-to: <20001013100825.F16304@daisy.vocalis.com>; from Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:08:25AM +0100
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:08:25AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Is it really a good idea to do transliteration in the locale? Surely
> it would be easier to have mbrtowc and wcrtomb be inverses and leave
> transliteration for iconv.

Transliteration is cuturally dependent, eg cyrilic is very dependent
on which language you transliterate into. Thus it needs to be in
the locale.

Kind regards
Keld
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