[windev] Converting from greek....

[Rupert Wood]

Serge Wautier wrote:

> Would you care to tell us why you want to implement transliteration?
> It's not every day that someone comes with such a requirement;-)
> Is it only to index the data? If yes, why don't you use Unicode
> encodings. UTF-8 (which is ASCII friendly) might be a good candidate.

We had this requirement for an online publishing system: we generate an URL component from the user's document title which can be in any character set but we want to keep the URLs ASCII for simplicity. (It looks like that's what Roberto is doing too.)

I don't think we came up with a very good solution though sorry.

Rup.