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Re: Question regarding gettext behavior on iconv failure
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Question regarding gettext behavior on iconv failure |
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Wed, 05 May 2021 01:54:57 +0200 |
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Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > 1 Empfaenger Chinese (??,???,??) ??
> > * For the second line of output, in the first three cases, iconv()
> > did transliteration, and the result was always an ASCII string.
> > (The quality of glibc's transliteration of Hanzi characters to
> > question marks can be debated, though.)
>
> Completely off-topic, but is there a "high quality" transliteration of
> Hanzi characters?
> Would you have expected a phenome to be spelled out in ASCII?
> I am not aware of any way to keep the meaning of the Hanzi characters in
> ASCII, therefore you see the locales "default_missing" character U+003F '?'.
Let's discuss this on libc-alpha. [1]
Bruno
[1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/