Hi all,
There are two issues pertaining to scripts and transliteration that I would like to
discuss.
First, I have not been able to find any softwares which transliterate from non-Indian
Brahmic scripts like Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Sinhale (there is one beta Sinhale-Tamil at
http://www.sirppi.com/ ). Also, I have not seen any Nastaleeq/Shahmukhi/Arabic to Brahmic
script transliterators (though Devnagari to Nastaleeq is present). Are there any softwares
which transliterate between Indic scripts and non-Indic scripts?
I think having transliteration softwares within extended Brahmic scripts will be useful
for interwiki communication and co-ordination with non Indic scripts. Also, such programs
will help in a better co-ordination with Indian/South Asian projects like Urdu and Sindhi.
For those of you who dont have transliteration softwares for within Indic scripts, you
can use girgit (
http://devanaagarii.net/hi/girgit/) or install baraha
(
http://www.baraha.com).
Second issue is the use of multiple scripts within a wikipedia. Wikipedias like Kashmiri
(Devnagari/Nastaleeq), Panjabi(Gurmukhi/Shahmukhi), Romani(Latin/Devnagari/Cyrillic),
Pali(Devnagari/Thai/Singhale/Lao), Sindhi(Arabic/Devnagari) can be written in more than
one scripts. Wikipediae like Kazakh (
http://kk.wikipedia.org) and Chinese
(
http://zh.wikipedia.org) have been using multiple scripts in the same wikipedia for a
long time now. However, we do not have such systems enabled in any of the South Asian
wikipediae. We need to request the people at bugzilla for this provision but I dont know
how to. Also, we need to install a inter-transliteration js in these wiki so that auto
transliteration of articles occur. For this, again, we need to either have a
transliteration software or build one.
So, guys, if there is any transliteration software between Indic and non Indic software
or any info. abt. how to allow multiple scripts in the above mentioned wiki chapters,
please post!
Regards,
Eukesh
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