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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2000-11-20 18:26:50 +0000
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2009-06-21 11:43:24 +0200
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Transliteration is now off by default.
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@@ -80,6 +80,11 @@ Full Unicode, in terms of \fBuint16_t\fP or \fBuint32_t\fP
(with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
.PP
+When the string "//TRANSLIT" is appended to \fItocode\fP, transliteration
+is activated. This means that when a character cannot be represented in the
+target character set, it can be approximated through one or several
+similarly looking characters.
+.PP
The resulting conversion descriptor can be used with \fBiconv\fP any number
of times. It remains valid until deallocated using \fBiconv_close\fP.
.PP