https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88607

--- Comment #6 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Jakub Jelinek from comment #4)
> Created attachment 45297 [details]
> gcc9-pr88607.patch
> 
> Untested patch.  Another option is do these changes (transliterations or
> removals) during make install, so that the UTF-8 characters are still used
> e.g. in the doxygen generated documentation.
> echo 'fi—éö§’' | iconv -f UTF-8// -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
> fi--eo?'
> so unlike my patch — is replaced by -- rather than just - and § is not
> removed, but ? used instead, though for the latter case I think removing of
> the section symbol is better.  And we can't use iconv in make install,
> because not all hosts will have it.

That seems like overkill. The ligatures can be replaced. Paragraph symbols can
be removed. Accents in names are the only valid reason to use non-ascii
characters.

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