Marcin Borkowski [2018-05-27 14:36:27+02] wrote:

> Still, I need something *simple*. 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).

> (BTW, if there is some command-line utility to do that, that's fine
> too.)

There is iconv:

    $ echo багд | iconv -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
    aaaa

So an Emacs Lisp wrapper function for iconv can be written like this:

    (defun my-iconv-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))))

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