Bug#376272: marked as done (libc6: //translit fails with cyrillic and others)
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and subject line Bug#376272: libc6: //translit fails with cyrillic and others
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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.
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Debian Release: testing/unstable
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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)
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > No, transliteration is language-dependent, so closing this bug.
> > For instance in French,
> > echo Füße | LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//translit
> > Fusse
> > and this is the expected result.
> > The ü -> ue transliteration is defined in /usr/share/i18n/locales/de_DE.
>
> Eh, what? First, you set de_DE.UTF-8 and talk about French (or is your
> LC_CTYPE explicitely set to fr_FR...?).
Wrong cut'n'paste, here it is
$ echo Füße | LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//translit
Fusse
> Second, Cyrillic is the main problem (see Subject) and you close the
> bug report after providing a hardly sufficient explanation for a
> secondary problem.
I am closing this bug again. I do not see why latin characters should be
transliterated (nor how) in the ru_RU locale. File a bug upstream if you
still believe that this is needed.
> And following your explanation, ru_RU file is still broken and does not
> describe the cyrillic->ascii tranliterations. As said before, that
> feature has been working fine with previous libc versions.
I highly doubt so, please tell with which version.
Denis
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