trying to strip out non ascii.. or rather convert non ascii

[wxjmfauth at gmail.com]

Le dimanche 27 octobre 2013 04:21:46 UTC+1, Nobody a écrit :
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> Simply ignoring diactrics won't get you very far.
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Right. As an example, these four French words :
cote, côte, coté, côté .

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> Most languages which use diactrics have standard conversions, e.g.
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> ö -> oe, which are likely to be used by anyone familiar with the
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> language e.g. when using software (or a keyboard) which can't handle
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> diactrics.
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I'm quite confortable with Unicode, esp. with the
Latin blocks.
Except this German case (I remember very old typewriters),
what are the other languages presenting this kind of
allowed feature ?

Just as a reminder. They are 1272 characters considered
as Latin characters (how to count them it not a simple
task), and if my knowledge is correct, they are covering
and/or are here to cover the 17 languages, to be exact,
the 17 European languages based on a Latin alphabet which
can not be covered with iso-8859-1.

And of course, logically, they are very, very badly handled
with the Flexible String Representation.

jmf