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Re: [PATCH] locale/C-translit.h.in: Greek -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #12031]
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: "Diego \(Egor\) Kobylkin" <egor at kobylkin dot com>
- Cc: "libc-locales\@sourceware.org" <libc-locales at sourceware dot org>, "libc-alpha\@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 20:43:05 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] locale/C-translit.h.in: Greek -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #12031]
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* Diego Kobylkin:
> 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]
I've got a question about this entry (and related ones):
+"\x0389" "E" # <U0389> GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS
Do you have a source for this? Your references generally transcribe η
as i. Does the tonos alter the pronunciation?