Re: [bug-gawk] feature request: iconv/recode dynamic extension

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Wolfgang Laun <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 09:17:07 +0100
> 
> The most general case of transliteration is handled by defining individual
> characters.

As I tried to explain, it isn't transliteration that is being sought
here, it's removal of combining accents and diacritics.

> You can add such a transliteration function ("dedia(str)") to
> any awk program ("foo.awk") using a simple generator like genf.awk:
>      gawk -- "`gawk -f genf.awk <<<"üöóäěščřžýáíéúů uooaescrzyaieuu
> foo.awk"`

Yes, of course.  But coming up with the list of such translations on
one's own is a huge job, and the Unicode database already has all that
figured out.  So my suggestion would be to import their tables, rather
than create them from scratch manually.

Of course, for one-off jobs that need to handle only a small set of
accented characters, what you suggest is sufficient.  My
interpretation of the question was that a solution for a more general
problem was sought.