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On Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:40 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> * Diego Kobylkin:
> 

> > -# https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
> > +# http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
> 

> Spurious change.
> 

> I think we should take this—even if imperfect, it beats all those ?.
> 

> Thanks,
> Florian


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On Thursday, November 14, 2019 2:14 PM, Diego (Egor) Kobylkin <egor@kobylkin.com> wrote:

> Changelog:
> 

> v3
> 

> -   spurious change (https/http) removed
>     

>     v2
>     

> -   ETA WITH TONOS is now transliterated as I/i to be consistent throughout the table. Ancient Greek calls for E/e and modern for I/i which we are taking here.
>     

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>     On Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:29 PM, Diego (Egor) Kobylkin egor@kobylkin.com wrote:
>     

> 

> > Changelog:
> > v2
> > 

> > -   ETA WITH TONOS is now transliterated as I/i to be consistent throughout the table. Ancient Greek calls for E/e and modern for I/i which we are taking here.
> >     Thanks Florian for the feedback on this!
> >     Egor
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> >     On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 9:31 AM, Diego (Egor) Kobylkin egor@kobylkin.com wrote:
> >     

> > 

> > > Dear locale maintainers,
> > > fix the glibc bug 12031 "iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters" [1]
> > > add Greek transliteration rows to locale/C-translit.h.in.
> > > This work is done on the heels of the successfully committed patch for the
> > > virtually the same bug [BZ #2872] but concerning Cyrillic characters. [2]
> > > AFAIK there are many versions of transcription tables for Greek to ASCII
> > > transcription. Given that current iconv logic can only translit one to many
> > > but not many to many symbols we take the "Standard" part of
> > > the Romanization_of_Greek#Modern_Greek table [3]
> > > and only keep the one letter Greek graphems. That "standard" seems to be close to
> > > the ELOT 743 indeed but not the same.
> > > So we omit things like M and Μπ being transliterated as M and B accordingly.
> > > Rather Μπ will be treated like two separate graphems and transliterated as Mp.
> > > Here is the list of some standards I have collected so far. There doesn't seem
> > > a way to harmonize them all into one. But if anyone want to propose a solution -
> > > please do.
> > > 

> > > -   ΕΛΟΤ 743 https://www.teicrete.gr/users/kutrulis/Ergalia/ELOT743.htm Passports.
> > >     

> > > -   ISO 843 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_843
> > >     

> > > -   ALA-LC https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/greek.pdf Book titles.
> > >     

> > > -   BGN/PCGN http://libraries.ucsd.edu/bib/fed/USBGN_romanization.pdf
> > >     

> > > -   http://geonames.nga.mil/gns/html/Romanization/Romanization_Greek.pdf Geographical names.
> > >     Furthermore to cover the whole U0370-U03FF Greek/Coptic Unicode range I have
> > >     asked around and made a best effort transliteration for the rest of characters
> > >     not covered in above standards.
> > >     Should you have better sources for the actual translit entries please make sure to
> > >     send your feedback!
> > >     The patch is attached.
> > >     Best regards,
> > >     Egor Kobylkin
> > >     https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12031 [1]
> > >     https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-07/msg00477.html [2]
> > >     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek#Modern_Greek [3]
> > >