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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:23:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpo1b29d0.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl

> 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.

I really strongly recommend you try to solve this problem by doing
nothing: keep the name in its full glory.  Nowadays users *should*
expect this to work.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-31 14:23 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
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 [this message]
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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