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Re: make-encoding error-action translit?

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Bruno,

Why doesn't make-encoding support
:input-error-action/:output-error-action value :translit?

Thanks

> * Jean Louis <ohtf@tah.fhccbeg> [2017-04-13 22:16:57 +0300]:
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:59:30PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> > * Jean Louis <ohtf@tah.fhccbeg> [2017-04-13 17:31:32 +0300]:
>> >
>> > I was under impression that č could be replaced by c, and š by s and
>> > so on.
>
> I found a solution, to use iconv:
>
> echo ßöäȧ čekaj malo | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
> ssoaa cekaj malo

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Re: make-encoding error-action translit?

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Sam,

> Why doesn't make-encoding support
> :input-error-action/:output-error-action value :translit?

You are right, make-encoding :output-error-action :translit
would make a lot of sense when implemented through the
//TRANSLIT suffix (available in GNU libc and GNU libiconv).

make-encoding :input-error-action :translit would be nonsense.

Why clisp doesn't support it? Purely for historical reasons:
Because clisp's make-encoding function was designed before
GNU libiconv and before I realized how useful the //TRANSLIT suffix
in glibc is.

Bruno

Re: make-encoding error-action translit?

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for your reply!

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2017-04-14 01:35:40 +0200]:
>
>> Why doesn't make-encoding support
>> :input-error-action/:output-error-action value :translit?
>
> You are right, make-encoding :output-error-action :translit
> would make a lot of sense when implemented through the
> //TRANSLIT suffix (available in GNU libc and GNU libiconv).

Anyone wants to implement this?
https://sourceforge.net/p/clisp/feature-requests/51/

> make-encoding :input-error-action :translit would be nonsense.

Right.

Thanks.

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