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

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-05-31, at 16:23, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>> Still, I need something *simple*.  I have a person's name (possibly with
>> some national characters), and I want to derive a filename from it.
>
> I really strongly recommend you try to solve this problem by doing
> nothing: keep the name in its full glory.  Nowadays users *should*
> expect this to work.

It's tempting, but no: these files will eventually be sent to
e.g. people on Windows XP and the like.  I don't want to take risks of
unreadable filenames.

Thanks anyway,

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Marcin Borkowski
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