Ideas for accent handling...

Hello list,

In german (and probably dutc,h and the scandinavian laguages, no idea 
there), accents (or ûmlauts') are widely used.
There's been a problem though with uppercase accented characters:

Since the Swiss keyboard (and typewriter keyboard) does support both 
German and French, Uppercase 'Umlauts' (Ö) have been sacrificed to 
support the french 'é'.
Hence, uppercase accented characters need to be composed.

What I am hinting at is: In German, the 'ö' can also be written 'oe', 
for cases where I cant get hold of the umlauted character. Similarly '€' 
(the Euro Sign) can be written EURO

AFAIK, such transliteration does not exist for French.

That way we could try to develop a translator class (Mediator, Adapter 
Pattern) with the following features:

- Handle transliteration ('ö'->'oe'). We could also transliterate the 
html way ('ö'->'ö')
- Store the respective words in a transliterated form.

Please note that we'd need a token to represent the language of the word 
as well, else htdig will stubidly transliterate 'oeuf' to 'öuf' and 
Soeur' to 'söur'

However, I suggest we do that for the nexct htdig release so that 
3.2.0b6 gets out.

Robert


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