On 2007-09-18 09:30:14 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > It just occurred to me... given that your $charset is UTF-8, what's the > purpose of //TRANSLIT? All possible characters are displayable in UTF-8, so > //TRANSLIT shouldn't actually be providing any benefit (that I'm aware of). > Is there something I'm missing?
This is because I use: set charset=`codeset 2> /dev/null || locale charmap`//TRANSLIT The charmap is not always UTF-8, that's why I need //TRANSLIT. (And FYI, codeset is a small program I wrote for a buggy OS that doesn't understand "locale charmap".) -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
