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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