* Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> [2010-05-30 20:29]: > For my German conversations I'm in favor to rewrite German umlauts > like so: ae/Ae oe/Oe ue/Ue and sz and be still UTF8 compliant, > regardless the platform in use.
I understand if someone hates me for burning their eyes with that, but I must admit I switched to the same behaviour years ago when I decided all that is not worth using 3 keyboard layouts all the time. > I understand that for cyrillic this would be a problem though. > Nevertheless you could live with KOI8 and use icu's uconv for > converting that stuff to UTF8 if you need to interchange with UTF8 > world. You "only" need to come up with a way to split your writings in disjoint chunks to feed into iconv. In other words: your suggestion won't work as long as you need to use more than one encoding at a time (e.g. in one conversation). And this is pretty common. cheers, -- stanio_
