From: John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 19:03:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOj2CQSJhkX5_ANjQ6w=p+5SE7RbE94w=iYNYD9h600K_ZRH9Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8U_uZcQiN0o_OSCWKaFu0v_v+YXfpgnhuozJZjYD7MjdA@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-31 2:03 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 [this message]
2018-06-02 18:07 ` Marcin Borkowski
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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