Re: [Gtkpod-devel] Stripping accented characters

[Jorg S. <jor...@gm...>]

> On 7/27/07, P.G. Richardson <p.g...@ph...> wrote:
> > Found some stuff last night on how to construct a function of my own to
> > change the characters for the fetchcover searching. Was wondering if
> there
> > already is some helpful function available. (Reinventing the wheel and
> all
> > that ...). Glib 3.0 seems to be preparing for such support but nothing
> at
> > the moment.
> 
> Isn't iconv + TRANSLIT a suitable answer?

I wanted to ask something more fundamental: why aren't accents and such allowed? I mean, whatever you'll do with accents and umlaute, what about Chinese and Japanese characters? Could the accent problem be an "upstream" problem, and we should not blindly remove accents but make it an option (or search for both if the accented version doesn't give results)?

JCS.
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