From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:07:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sdp2hah.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOj2CQSJhkX5_ANjQ6w=p+5SE7RbE94w=iYNYD9h600K_ZRH9Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 2018-05-31, at 04:03, John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I have a person's name (possibly with
>> > some national characters), and I want to derive a filename from it. It
>> > doesn't have to be correct in 100% cases. It doesn't even have to be
>> > unambiguous (there will be a number for that in the filename, too).
>>
>> Technically you could use the name of a person as is, as long as it is
>> representable in Unicode and contains neither the null character nor the
>> slash character. But I assume you want a filename that is portable between
>> file systems, or a filename that can be represented in an URI path segment
>> without %-encoding, or any combination of the above.
>>
>> In that case, the Python unidecode library is probably the closest that you
>> can find. But make very sure that the people involved never see their own
>> name’s transliteration.
>
> There's also an Emacs Lisp port of unidecode[1]
>
> (unidecode "żółć")
> ;=> "zolc"
>
> [1]: https://github.com/sindikat/unidecode
Thanks,
and thanks also to all the others for their input.
I didn't really intend to create such a storm.
My use case is much, much simpler than much of the stuff mentioned in
this thread. 99.5% (or more) of the cases are Polish names, where we
have only 9 "offending" letters, all easily asciified. I thought there
is a simple, general solution (and I learned there isn't and probably
there can't be).
Hence, I'm going to stick with Eli's suggestion (and manual conversion
of "ł" into "l"). And in case I encounter a non-Polish name with some
letters outside the English alphabet (this may very rarely happen),
I can just manually override this simple solution.
IOW, KISS.
But thanks for the opportunity to learn a few things!
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-02 18:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-27 6:22 Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 7:36 ` tomas
2018-05-27 12:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 12:52 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-27 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 16:59 ` Teemu Likonen
2018-05-28 5:24 ` Tak Kunihiro
2018-05-30 10:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 17:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-30 19:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 20:00 ` tomas
2018-05-28 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-29 6:37 ` tomas
2018-05-27 13:04 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 10:14 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-30 11:51 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-30 15:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 2:03 ` John Mastro
2018-06-02 18:07 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2018-06-02 18:48 ` tomas
2018-06-07 17:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 22:33 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-07 17:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-06-02 18:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-27 19:53 ` tomas
2018-05-28 8:15 ` Philipp Stephani
2018-05-28 10:28 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-28 10:39 ` tomas
2018-05-28 15:30 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-28 16:02 ` tomas
2018-05-30 10:12 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-31 15:08 ` S. Champailler
2018-05-31 22:52 ` Richard Wordingham
2018-05-31 15:42 ` Marcin Borkowski
2018-05-31 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-31 16:20 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-31 19:03 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.871.1527781438.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-05-31 23:23 ` James K. Lowden
2018-06-01 2:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-01 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-27 14:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-05-27 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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