Re: Is there a way to "asciify" a string?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-05-30, at 13:51, Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:15 PM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
>> Actually, they shouldn't be offended - a similar thing happens in emails
>> and such all the time.
>
> Not very often. Normally, one chooses their preferred transliteration and
> puts that in their From: header, then replies go with that form in To:, and
> that form is also saved in peoples’ address books so new messages also get
> the preferred form. The only time I expect issues is when person A knows
> the native form of person B’s name and attempts to transliterate it, and
> guesses wrong.

In Polish (my use-case 99%+ of the time), there is no possibility of
confusion wrt transliteration: all non-Latin letters in our alphabet are
ąćęłńóśźż, and they neatly (although non-injectively) map to acelnoszz.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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