Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Why iconv is locale dependent?

[tomas]

Hi Bruno

Thanks for your time, but I still need a rationale...

> 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.
But note that the transliteration I am trying to produce is to ASCII!  
What culture might be involved in that transliteration?

I still cannot understand why determining both 'from' and 'to' encodings 
is not sufficient...  Do you have an example where the transliterations 
differ according to the locale?

Regards,
Tomás