Re: ASCII folding library for Lua?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2016-02-26 17:47 GMT+02:00 Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com>:
>
> On Feb 26, 2016 7:15 AM, "Dirk Laurie" <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 2016-02-26 16:33 GMT+02:00 Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>:
>> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:45 PM, Richter, Jörg <Joerg.Richter@pdv-fs.de>
>> > wrote:
>> >>> I remember seeing an ASCII folding[1] module for Lua a few years ago.
>> >>
>> >> Do you mean Unidecode?
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>> I have occasionally needed the reverse: given a US-ASCII rendering
>> of a (usually well-known) word or name, reconstruct its original form.
>>
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> Which is, of course, impossible in the general case, due to the mapping not
> being one-to-one. For example, resume vs. résumé, or expose vs. exposé.

I was thinking along the lines of Dostoyevsky, Pythagoras, al-Khowarizmi
etc. The sort of thing one can always Google.