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bug #47394: transliterate to plain ascii more Japanese typographic symbols

Submitted by:  Andrea <eadmaster>
Submitted on:  Sat 12 Mar 2016 08:01:15 AM UTC  
 
Category: TransliterationSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Not a Bug
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Bruno Haible <haible>
Open/Closed: Closed

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Sat 01 Oct 2016 05:45:03 PM UTC, comment #1:

Thanks for the report.

# iconv -V
iconv (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.19-0ubuntu6.3) 2.19

Reports about iconv from glibc (eglibc being a cooperative fork of glibc) should go to the glibc poeple, see https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html

For libiconv I observe a similar output, though:

$ iconv --version
iconv (GNU libiconv 1.13)
$ echo "「」『』(〔01。、・〜" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT//IGNORE
(01

But most of these characters cannot be easily transliterated to ASCII. For symbols, we require that the original glyph and the target glyph look similar and, if possible, the semantics be similar as well.

For example about U+301C: one could debate endlessly whether the proper transliteration is the ASCII tilde (similar glyph but not semantically related) or the "..." string (very different glyph but semantically the same).

Bruno Haible <haible>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Sat 12 Mar 2016 08:01:15 AM UTC, original submission:

example:
# iconv -V
iconv (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.19-0ubuntu6.3) 2.19

# echo "「」『』(〔01。、・〜" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT//IGNORE
????(01/????

ideal output:
""""((01., ~

full list here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typographic_symbols

Andrea <eadmaster>

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Thu 24 Nov 2016 12:02:51 AM UTChaibleCategoryNone=>Transliteration
    Sat 01 Oct 2016 05:45:03 PM UTChaibleStatusNone=>Not a Bug
      Assigned toNone=>haible
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed

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