From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 17:04:29 +0200 Message-ID: <877enldw1u.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> <876035cuwm.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527692663 14746 195.159.176.226 (30 May 2018 15:04:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 15:04:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 30 17:04:19 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 1fO2e9-0003iM-DF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 17:04:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39169 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fO2gG-0004k9-Cs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 11:06:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fO2fZ-0004iz-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 11:05:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fO2fT-0003KW-3p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 11:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:48005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fO2fS-0003Jb-TD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 11:05:39 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D873E6F18; Wed, 30 May 2018 17:05:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qiSxPljqPmsb; Wed, 30 May 2018 17:05:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (188.47.47.7.ipv4.supernova.orange.pl [188.47.47.7]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6E4DE6F17; Wed, 30 May 2018 17:05:33 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.110.48.8 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:116906 Archived-At: On 2018-05-30, at 13:51, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:15 PM Marcin Borkowski wrote: > >> Actually, they shouldn't be offended - a similar thing happens in emails >> and such all the time. > > Not very often. Normally, one chooses their preferred transliteration and > puts that in their From: header, then replies go with that form in To:, a= nd > that form is also saved in peoples=E2=80=99 address books so new messages= also get > the preferred form. The only time I expect issues is when person A knows > the native form of person B=E2=80=99s name and attempts to transliterate = it, and > guesses wrong. In Polish (my use-case 99%+ of the time), there is no possibility of confusion wrt transliteration: all non-Latin letters in our alphabet are =C4=85=C4=87=C4=99=C5=82=C5=84=C3=B3=C5=9B=C5=BA=C5=BC, and they neatly (al= though non-injectively) map to acelnoszz. Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl