Re: [boost] [inspect] Hall of Shame plus non-ASCII characters

From: Daniel James (daniel_james_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 07:50:59

2008/6/26 Jens Seidel <jensseidel_at_[hidden]>:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:44:11PM +0800, gchen wrote:
>> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>> >Ouch. How do you spell Jaakko Järvi in plain ASCII?
>>
>> I know some languages can use 'ae' to stand for ä, but this
>> may not be valid for all other languages, so this non-ASCII
>> character issue seems a little puzzle to solve, to me.
>
> Let's ask iconv for a transliteration:
>
> echo "Jaakko Järvi" | iconv -t ascii//TRANSLIT
> Jaakko Jaervi

He uses Jarvi:

http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?People/Jaakko_Jarvi

Daniel