From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 21:27:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83po1f7i0p.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> <871sdxgt05.fsf@iki.fi> <83d0xh84kz.fsf@gnu.org> <20180527200038.GB2580@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527531953 13957 195.159.176.226 (28 May 2018 18:25:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 18:25:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 28 20:25:49 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMq5-0003WS-9l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 20:25:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57390 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMsA-0008WL-IT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 14:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42168) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMri-0008WD-Dk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 14:27:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMre-0002wm-Fh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 14:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMre-0002wh-CO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 14:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4130 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fNMrd-0000gI-Ob for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 May 2018 14:27:26 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180527200038.GB2580@tuxteam.de> (tomas@tuxteam.de) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116885 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 22:00:38 +0200 > From: > > I searched the manual (and apropos) for translit and turned up nearly > empty (OK, OK, apropos yields standard-display-cyrillic-translit, but > that doesn't look promising). > > How to go about that search? First, it is wrong to think about this as "transliteration". The correct term is "Unicode normalization". But the real problem is that the facilities in ucs-normalize are not documented in the ELisp manual. Something to work on, I guess.