Re: Norwegian transliteration

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:14:14PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Denis Barbier]
> > While playing with #235759 I noticed that despite Danish, Norwegian

s/despite/unlike/, do not know why I am always making the same mistake.

> > locales do not define transliteration rules for aring and Aring.
> > This is amazing since Bokmaal is found everywhere ;)
> > Petter, has this issue already been discussed upstream or with
> > debian-glibc?
> 
> Good point.  No, it haven't been discussed.  It haven't occurred to me
> that it is a good idea either.  But it sounds like a good idea.  The
> normal ASCII representation for the Norwegian characters are æ -> ae,
> ø -> oe and å -> aa.  I guess documenting in the locale is a good
> idea.  I guess the main reason why I haven't considered it is that I
> was not aware that it was possible to include such code in the locale.

OE and AE ligatures are already defined for most (if not all) locales:
  $ echo ½ | LANG=nb_NO iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t ascii//translit
  oe
  $ echo æ | LANG=nb_NO iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t ascii//translit
  ae
See translit_compat and translit_neutral for details.
You only have to define the å -> aa transliteration in Norwegian locales,
as in Danish.

Denis