Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:30:38PM +0700, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 5:39 PM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> > One often-used method is to just URL-encode [1] the thing [...]

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> %3D ‘=’ and %2F ‘/’ are Trained Rat Level 1 material. Under your
> suggestion, my name is %D0%AE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD and it
> takes a certain effort to decode that in my head. I seriously doubt Tak
> Kunihiro’s urlencoded name could be read at all without decoding.

This is all Enlightened Beaver level. I'm far below that...

> (On the other hand, I regularly get offended at banks trying to
> automatically transliterate my name when issuing a card for me.)

FWIW, I've got one accented letter, and used to give out my name
with that, to see what comes back from the round trip. Hilarity :-)

Things have become much more boring the last fifteen to twenty
years, though.

Cheers
- -- tomás
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