Re: [PATCH] Locales: Cyrillic -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #2872] re-submission for 2.29

[Egor Kobylkin <egor@kobylkin.com>]

Ups, sorry, wrong link to the patch
correct link https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=11303

On 10.10.2018 00:40, Egor Kobylkin wrote:
> On 10.10.2018 00:17, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>> 9.10.2018 20:34 Egor Kobylkin <egor@kobylkin.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The culprits were the "" around the "<U0423><U0301>" (<U00DA>) and
>>> "<U0443><U0301>" (<U00FA>).
>>> It works now with
>>> % CYRILLIC UNDEFINED
>>> <U0423><U0301> <U00DA>;"<U0055><U0060>"
>>> % CYRILLIC UNDEFINED
>>> <U0443><U0301> <U00FA>;"<U0075><U0060>"
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I wonder why you need Cyrillic U with acute, and why you comment it
>> as "undefined" at all.  I know that any Cyrillic vowel may appear with
>> an acute accent but "the diacritic is used only in dictionaries, children's
>> books, resources for foreign-language learners (...)". [1]  So maybe
>> all vowels with an acute accent should be handled (which I think is fine)
>> rather than just U.
> 
> I have just taken the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9 table and
> implemented it on Marko's suggestion. Personally I have no opinion on
> what letters should be included and under what name. These funny Us just
> happened to be in the ISO9 table.
> 
> There is no codepoint and no name for <U0423><U0301> and <U0443><U0301>
> in Unicode. That’s why its coming through that way from my worksheet as
> it does a reverse lookup on the names based on the Unicode codepoints.
> 
> Manually we can change it to whatever you’d suggest in the
> translit_cyrillic. I just don’t know the right name.
> 
> On my side I think I have all outstanding tasks complete for the patch
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=11144. So please let
> me know explicitly if you'd like anything changed there.

correct link https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=11303

> 
> I was planning to rewrite just the commit message according to your
> earlier feedback and resubmit sometime soon.
> 


Bests,
Egor