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Re: [PATCHv2] Update the localedata/locales/translit_* files to Unicode 7.0.0
- From: Marko Myllynen <myllynen at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike FABIAN <mfabian at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Pravin Satpute <psatpute at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:27:21 +0300
- Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] Update the localedata/locales/translit_* files to Unicode 7.0.0
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Hi,
On 2015-06-16 17:24, Mike FABIAN wrote:
> Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> ãããããããã:
>
>>> Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Addition and fixes for translit_neutral
>>>
>>> +% LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG
>>> +<U014A> <U004E>
>>> +% LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG
>>> +<U014B> <U006E>
>>
>> Hmm, I presume NG/ng would be more expected than N/n here, but reading
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eng_%28letter%29 doesn't give a clear
>> answer either way, what do you think?
>
> http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/trunk/common/transforms/Latin-ASCII.xml#L54
>
> has:
>
> 54 <tRule>Å â N ; # 014A;LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ENG</tRule>
> 55 <tRule>Å â n ; # 014B;LATIN SMALL LETTER ENG</tRule>
>
> "ng" might be phonetically closer but the main spirit of the "neutral"
> transliteration to ASCII seems to be something like "drop the accents",
> not "approximate the pronunciation using ASCII".
I see, looks ok then.
Thanks,
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Marko Myllynen