From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Unidecode" functionality in Emacs
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:39:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83o9jjmesx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmfjgx55.fsf@iki.fi> (message from Teemu Likonen on Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:59:34 +0200)
> From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 06:59:34 +0200
> Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> I don't know of any built-in functions but external "iconv" tool can do
> similar thing for Latin scripts. Here's an example Emacs Lisp function
> wrapper for "iconv":
>
> (defun tl-ascii-translit (string)
> (with-temp-buffer
> (insert string)
> (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max)
> "iconv" t t nil "-t" "ASCII//TRANSLIT")
> (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min) (point-max))))
>
> Works for Latin scripts:
>
> (tl-ascii-translit "Déjà vu") ;=> "Deja vu"
> (tl-ascii-translit "北亰") ;=> "??"
The iconv's "TRANSLIT" is not the transliteration that's sought here.
It's an attempt to present similarly-looking characters when the
original character is not in the target character set (ASCII in the
above snippet). So it's a small wonder this only works for European
scripts, because no ASCII character can ever "look like" characters in
other scripts.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-20 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-19 22:04 "Unidecode" functionality in Emacs John Mastro
2018-03-20 4:59 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-03-20 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-03-20 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-20 17:23 ` John Mastro
2018-03-20 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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