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[Stefan Winter <address@concealed>]

Hi!

> I'll do this. Not using non-ASCII is not a problem for us at all.

Great! Still, I like to get to the bottom of things.

It turns out that what TRANSLIT does depends on the locale that is set.
Since you were downloading Hungarian installers, the transliteration of
the word happened according to the transliteration rules for Hungarian.
Which are markedly different from those of any other language we support
in CAT.

The solution is probably to always transliterate with the English
transliteration rules, regardless of language selected, which then
simply redacts all kinds of accents.

If you're curious, this is the Unix "LC_CTYPE" language setting. If
you're even more curious, look at the PHP code and output below, which I
ran on my dev box to see the difference with my own eyes.

We'll include this fix in 2.0.1 (considering that you indicated that the
workaround is not problematic for you).

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

<?php
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8");



echo iconv("UTF-8", "US-ASCII//TRANSLIT", "áprilistól");




echo "\n";
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "de_DE.UTF-8");




echo iconv("UTF-8", "US-ASCII//TRANSLIT", "áprilistól");




echo "\n";
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "el_GR.UTF-8");




echo iconv("UTF-8", "US-ASCII//TRANSLIT", "áprilistól");




echo "\n";
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "hu_HU.UTF-8");




echo iconv("UTF-8", "US-ASCII//TRANSLIT", "áprilistól");




echo "\n";
?>

Output:

aprilistol
aprilistol
aprilistol
a'prilisto'l


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Stefan WINTER
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