Postings tagged with Internationalization
iconv transliterations
This is a lazy web request.
In GNOME world we use the g_convert, which conveniently wraps the iconv library, to convert between character sets. A feature I considered quite useful was the builtin transliteration support: When adding the "//TRANSLIT" suffix to the target character set's name, iconv shall try to convert characters not present in the target charset to their most reasonable equivialent. For example "Schlüssel" should become "Schluessel" when converting from UTF-8 to ASCII and "доброй вечер" could become ...
