> The biggest problem I know of is that the uppercasing transform of > German sharp S "ß" goes to "SS"
Pretty damn sure that's nothing compared to the Turkish dotless I <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I#In_computing>. Then again, I'm sure they're used to seeing computers screw up the tittle by now... :-) On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 04:04, G. Branden Robinson < g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > At 2018-12-17T08:28:07+0100, Pierre-Jean Fichet wrote: > > > > Hello alls, > > > > "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > +.ie \\$1 .tr aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ > > > +.el .tr aabbccddeeffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz > > > > The problem with this, is that it ignores all but english languages. > > Yup. I'm aware of that, which is why I did not propose it as an > actual patch. It's just a proof of concept, and it does work, as far as > it goes--which is not far enough for non-English languages or the rare > occasions when English words avail themselves of diacritics. > > Examples: résumé, fiancé, naïve, coöperation, reëntrant, ... [1] > > > "élément", for instance, would become "éLéMENT", which is the ugliest > > thing you can get. And yes, there are man pages in french, and I > > believe, in a lot of other languages. > > I'm aware. > > The biggest problem I know of is that the uppercasing transform of > German sharp S "ß" goes to "SS". (A recent version of Unicode did > introduce a capital sharp S but it might have only specialized uses; I'm > not sure all Germans would find it acceptable.) > > A 1-to-2 character mapping of course is beyond the ability of .tr. > > As I think John Gardner said, what we really need is a roff request to > expose the underlying C library's toupper() and tolower() functions. > > A good feature to precede this one into 1.22.5, perhaps? > > Regards, > Branden > > [1] All of these can be spelled without diacritics, but it is also > acceptable according to most style manuals I've seen to preserve them, > especially when they help to disambiguate pronunciation. The magazine > _New Yorker_ is somewhat notorious for clinging to the dieresis as a > signifier that a vowel cluster should not be pronounced as a diphthong. >