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From: Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:34:30 +0000
Subject: Re: Russian translations for mlmmj
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Nikolay Derkach wrote:
> cat file | uni2ascii -a U > file.ascii
> 
> uni2ascii can be found at http://billposer.org/Software/uni2ascii.html

What's the advantage of uni2ascii compared to iconv that is a standard
tool shipped with all libc6 setup?

> PS: In my opinion, localizations in ascii is a nonsense, really it's a
> step back.

Every software should use gettext(), that's for sure!

Thomas