On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 22:46:08 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Byrial Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The only the way to get correct translitteration is, as I see it, to
> > use the translitteration rules defined in that LC_CTYPE locale which
> > corresponds to the used LC_MESSAGES locale.
>
> BS. The transliteration rules can apply t any text. It's only
> important the LC_CTYPE matches what you want to get out. LC_MESSAGES
> can have whatever value it wants.
Say I call a program like this:
$ LANGUAGE=da:eo LC_CTYPE=da_DK my_program
If Danish translations exist for that program, then they will be
used and no charset conversion will be needed.
But if only Esperanto translations exist, they will be converted
from iso-8859-3 to iso-8859-1, and translitterations of some
Esperanto letters will be needed. The needed translitteration rules
is (or should be) in a "eo" LC_CTYPE defintion, and not in the
Danish LC_CTYPE definition, according to my understanding.
--
Byrial
http://home.worldonline.dk/~byrial/
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