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Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Why iconv is locale dependent?
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Why iconv is locale dependent? |
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Mon, 02 Jan 2017 22:22:02 +0100 |
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Hi,
> Correct me if I am wrong: you are saying that "Горбачёв" will be
> converted from UTF-8 to ASCII/TRANSLIT in different ways according to
> the above "cultures"?
If someone actually had done the work of putting a transliteration
of Russian -> French,English,German into glibc, and if Cyrillic
letters would not be used for other languages (Ukrainian, Serbian, etc.)
as well, then yes.
> I am using libiconv (through lua-iconv) and I was experimenting the
> transliteration problem mentioned in the original message.
Most probably this lua-iconv module happily uses the iconv API from glibc.
Bruno