Bug#376272: libc6: //translit fails with cyrillic and others
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6-15
Severity: normal
Hello,
the //translit function seems to be partially broken in the
current glibc. I remember it having worked fine some months ago.
Demo (with UTF-8 input):
echo Тест | LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//translit
????
(should be Test)
echo Füße | LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//translit
Fuesse
(ok, correct)
echo Füße | LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//translit
F?sse
(Why not the same? Unicode is unicode is unicode... or does iconv try to
do some stupid cheating nowadays and assumes that Russian people are not
aware of the ä->ae transliteration?)
Whatever the reason behind this changed behaviour is, it is not natural,
not userfriendly and therefore not correct.
Eduard.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-mm1
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii tzdata 2006g-2 Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time
libc6 recommends no packages.
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