Re: Transliteration for use in UTF-8 locales

[Bruno Haible]

Markus Kuhn asked:
> what is wrong with having fallback transliteration done by mbrtowc?

You certainly mean wcrtomb. What is wrong with it:
  - it is confusing for programmers,
  - it may produce more than MB_CUR_MAX bytes, thus crash applications,
  - it causes problems with wcwidth, e.g. wcwidth(<a">) = 1 but
    should be 2 if transliterated.

Bruno
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