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From: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r341775 - in head: Mk/Uses converters/libiconv
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:11:46 +0400 Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 31.01.2014 3:01, Andrey Chernov wrote:
>>> And lack of //TRANSLIT isn't as bad as I initially thought it was becau=
se
>>> system iconv does transliteration by default.  It's just that the output
>>> is not as good as with libiconv.  The examples so far only involve ASCII
>>> and ISO-8859-1.  I do seem to get good transliteration with ISO-8859-15.
>>=20
>> Transliteration by converting everything to '?' (that's all I got in my
>> testings with several charsets, including 8859-15) means transliteration
>> is simple not working, it isn't 'not as good as'. Despite of false
>> claims in the system iconv code, see just a definition of
>> transliteration term.
>=20
> Just an example:
> # perl -e 'print "\xc1\n";' | iconv -f "ISO8859-15" -t "US-ASCII//TRANSLI=
T"
> ?
> iconv: warning: invalid characters: 1
> (what ever this warning does here?)
>=20
> # perl -e 'print "\xc1\n";' | /usr/local/bin/iconv -f "ISO8859-15" -t "US=
-ASCII//TRANSLIT"
> 'A

These still involve US-ASCII.  Try these:

small i with macron: =C4=AB
# perl -e 'print "\xc4\xab\n";' | iconv -f "UTF-8" -t "ISO-8859-15//TRANSLI=
T"
i

small dutch ij: =C4=B3
# perl -e 'print "\xc4\xb3\n";' | iconv -f "UTF-8" -t "ISO-8859-15//TRANSLI=
T"
ij