On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:24:25AM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > In theory, you could convert the maintainer name to a decomposed Unicode > form (NFD) in which the combining characters are all separate from the > main glyphs. Then you'd only need to map a handful of characters, i.e. > the popular diacritics (umlaut, ', `, /, ~). > > This would depend on having the Unicode character data handy, however. dh_make is written in Perl. However I think there are normalization modules for Perl, that should do it.
> I could write a Python script to do this, if it would be at all helpful; > my Unicode-fu is sadly weak in Perl. Yes, so is mine. I think Unicode::Normalize will do it but not sure. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
