From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string? Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 10:23:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zi0llisj.fsf@mbork.pl> <20180527073645.GB17354@tuxteam.de> <87y3g5l1h0.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527777737 20483 195.159.176.226 (31 May 2018 14:42:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 14:42:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 31 16:42:13 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 1fOOmK-00059p-OS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 16:42:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44503 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOOoQ-0007nF-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 10:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOOXy-0003ea-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 10:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOOXt-0000WA-5E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 10:27:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43315 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fOOXs-0000VT-TR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 10:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fOOVj-0001le-5D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 May 2018 16:25:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 9 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KaVsxy7caw7UVKDuQ54w4W5rK90= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:116921 Archived-At: > 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