Normalize a polish L
Thorsten Kampe
thorsten at thorstenkampe.de
Mon Oct 15 16:27:00 EDT 2007
* Bjoern Schliessmann (Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:51:54 +0200)
> Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> > The 'L' is actually pronounced like the English "w"...
>
> '?' originally comes from "L" (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/?>) and
> is AFAIK transcribed so.
There are lots of possible transcriptions for "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
WITH STROKE". Transcription is language dependent so the English and
German transcriptions of Polish names are different.
> Also, a friend of mine writes himself "Lukas" (pronounced L-) even
> though in Polish his name is ?ukas (short Wh-).
Why do you try to use characters in a character set that does not
contain these characters? That doesn't make any sense.
Thorsten
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