Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > 1 Empfaenger Chinese (??,???,??)      ??
> >   * For the second line of output, in the first three cases, iconv()
> >     did transliteration, and the result was always an ASCII string.
> >     (The quality of glibc's transliteration of Hanzi characters to
> >     question marks can be debated, though.)
> 
> Completely off-topic, but is there a "high quality" transliteration of
> Hanzi characters?
> Would you have expected a phenome to be spelled out in ASCII?
> I am not aware of any way to keep the meaning of the Hanzi characters in
> ASCII, therefore you see the locales "default_missing" character U+003F '?'.

Let's discuss this on libc-alpha. [1]

Bruno

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