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[Bug localedata/2872] New: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
- From: "edi at gmx dot de" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 2 Jul 2006 08:31:01 -0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/2872] New: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
- Reply-to: sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org
Hello,
I tried to convert some text from Cyrillic (UTF-8) to ASCII, using the
//translit flag. However, it fails badly, all chars are just replaced with ?. It
seems to be independent from my current locale, I can set en_US.UTF-8 or
de_DE.UTF-8 or ru_RU.UTF-8, it still fails.
Transliteration of latin seems to work, though:
echo Müßte асдфасфд | LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//translit
Muesste ????????
echo Müßte асдфасфд | LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//translit
Musste ????????
I had a "discussion" with a Debian maintainer of glibc, who indicated that the
problem is in the locale which controls the transliterations... but, from my
POV, there should be a default fallback when there is no other transliteration
scheme. And I remember that it has been working with glibc some months or years ago.
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Summary: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
Product: glibc
Version: 2.3.6
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
AssignedTo: libc-locales at sources dot redhat dot com
ReportedBy: edi at gmx dot de
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2872
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