Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Feature request on translitterate

[Bruno Haible]

> It would be useful if translitteration could be done only from one
> character to one character long string.
> In the context of EDIFACT, or flat files, the length in number of
> characters matters.
> So translitterating "€" to "EUR" is not an option.

You can implement your desired feature as a string processing function in C,
based on iconv(), in a way that
  1. works with all iconv() implementations that support '//TRANSLIT'
     (that include glibc and GNU libiconv),
  2. works with all encodings and in all locales.

The starting point of this implementation is a function that converts one
character at a time, like the function iconv_carefully_1 in
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/striconveh.c .
Then you need a function that determines the number of characters in the
conversion result of a character; this one too is based on iconv_carefully_1,
but on iconv_open(DESTINATION,DESTINATION). With these two building bricks
you can do it.

Therefore there is no need to bother GNU libiconv (or any iconv() 
implementation)
to achieve your desired feature.

Bruno