Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> *prompt* echo ö§ | recode latin1..ascii
>> "oSS
>> *prompt* echo ö§ | iconv -f latin1 -t
>> ascii//TRANSLIT ; echo $?
>> oe?
>> --------------
>> »oe« is much better than »"o« and »SS« is no usable replacement for
>> »§« (I do not think there is one), it would be nice if iconv's
>> exit-status reflected whether questionmarks were used, but changing
>> this would probably break existing software.
> I agree oe is much better than "o, but I can't get that:
> bob:vc-p2:bob>echo ö§ | iconv -f latin1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
> ??
> I have iconv 2.3.1. Is it possible that my locale affects the
> glyphs iconv returns? My locale is C. What locale are you using?
[...]
de_AT (uses ISO-8859-1 as charset).
LANG=de_AT, everything else is unset:
*prompt* echo ö§ | env -u LANG iconv -f latin1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
??
*prompt* echo ö§ | env LANG=en_US iconv -f latin1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
??
*prompt* echo ö§ | env LANG=de_AT iconv -f latin1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
oe?
*prompt* echo ö§ | env LANG=fr_FR iconv -f latin1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT
o?
cu andreas
