Automatic transliteration

Posted: 2023-06-04 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, office | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Recently, there was an interesting discussion in #slackbuilds @libera.chat with lockywolf about Cyrillic to Latin transliteration. I never name files or folders in Cyrillic (a habit left from the Windows 9* times), but others do, so it’s not a bad idea to be able to automatically achieve this.
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Cyrillic in the XMMS playlist

Posted: 2015-04-04 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, media | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

In the XMMS playlist, the default font for GTK1 does not display correctly Cyrillic file names. A commonly used encoding for Cyrillic text is CP1251. Read the rest of this entry »