Re: transliteration russian

[Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>]

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On 2010-10-29 <23:25:20>, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> The best thing to do would be to transliterate Russian patterns into
> Latin script (under one condition: transliteration needs to be
> one-to-one; if one cyrillic glyph transliterates into two latin

The one in question is rather a transcription (‘romanization’)
than a transliteration, thus unfortunately there is no
bijective mapping (e.g. ‘я’->‘ja’, ‘ш’->‘sh’ etc.). It seems to
be a hybrid between the standard Library of Congress-style
transcription and an older ISO or ΓΟСТ transliteration. Also, ‘j’
occurs in very odd positions. Whatever it is, we would need the
complete transcription mapping.

As others already pointed out, with a small number of strings
Steffen might get acceptable results by using the patterns of a
similar language. Although real transliterations work best with
Czech or Slovak, this peculiar transcription might be better off
with Polish or even (judging by the use of ‘sh’) standard
English.

@Steffen, if you could convince the author to supply the original
Russian text and if he would agree to use a more common style,
you could let the transliteration module do the job instead
(http://bitbucket.org/phg/transliterator).

> By far the easiest and most portable solution would be if you could
> convince Taco to implement something like "latin a is equivalent to
> cyrillic a as far as hyphenation is concerned" (which could also solve
> many other problems that we have).

+1. This would be a great feature.

Good night all, Philipp



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