OK, but if i understand correctly, LanguageConverter is already
integrated with the search engine.
2011/6/10 Philip Tzou <philip.npc(a)gmail.com>om>:
strtr() is sufficient.** Current LC is based on it.
2011/6/10 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
> There's a problem which is familiar to people who use non-Latin
> alphabets in computers is that they sometimes forget to switch the
> keyboard layout and type a whole word or even a sentence of gibberish
> until they notice it. For example, people who use a Cyrillic keyboard
> may search Google for "цшлшзувшф", when they actually meant to search
> for "wikipedia", and vice versa - "dbrbgtlbz" when they meant
> "википедия" (that's "wikipedia" in Russian). The Google
search engine
> is aware of it for a few years now and often automatically searches
> for the desired term in a DWIM manner.
>
> Wikipedia's own search engine is not aware of it yet. A user in the
> Hebrew Wikipedia had this idea: Maybe LanguageConverter can be used
> for it? Common keyboard layouts can be mapped to each other, like the
> two Serbian alphabet are mapped to each other today, and
> Special:Search is already aware of LanguageConverter.