Bug #65361 [Fbk->Opn]: Transliteration has uppercase problems with letter J in Serbian

From: Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:49:20 +0000
Subject: Bug #65361 [Fbk->Opn]: Transliteration has uppercase problems with letter J in Serbian
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 ID:                 65361
 User updated by:    pascal dot chevrel at free dot fr
 Reported by:        pascal dot chevrel at free dot fr
 Summary:            Transliteration has uppercase problems with letter J
                     in Serbian
-Status:             Feedback
+Status:             Open
 Type:               Bug
 Package:            Unicode Engine related
 Operating System:   Linux
 PHP Version:        5.5.1
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

All my sources are in utf8, I rechecked with the isutf8 bash command.


Previous Comments:
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[2013-07-30 16:43:45] ab@php.net

Is your source cyrillic string UTF-8 encoded? No idea how to encode otherwise, but 
with UTF-8 source it gives the translit you expect. So that might be the key.

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[2013-07-30 14:44:15] pascal dot chevrel at free dot fr

Description:
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The transliterator class does not work well when converting from Cyrillic Serbian to Latin Script
Serbian. All the j letters in cyrillic are systematically converted to uppercase J in latin-script
serbian while it should be lowercase j inside a word.

Online conversion tools probably also based on ICU don't have this bug and do the conversion
correctly.

I am attaching a code sample that shows that bug. I tested that the bug exists in both PHP 5.4 and
5.5

Thanks!

Test script:
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<?php
$t = Transliterator::create('Serbian-Latin/BGN');
$source = 'Најгледанији сајтови';
echo '<ul>'
    . '<li>Cyrillic source: ' . $source . '</li>'
    . '<li>Expected transliteration: Najgledaniji sajtovi</li>'
    . '<li>Actual transliteration: ' . $t->transliterate($source) .
'</li>'
    . '</ul>';


Expected result:
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This string :
Најгледанији сајтови

Should be transliterated to:
Najgledaniji sajtovi



Actual result:
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But PHP transliterates it to:
NaJgledaniJi saJtovi


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