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From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?
Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 20:04:11 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8U_uZcQiN0o_OSCWKaFu0v_v+YXfpgnhuozJZjYD7MjdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl>

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 7:38 PM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> 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.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-27 13:04 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 [this message]
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
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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