I am implementing the transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin for
Serbian Wikipedia. I am not sure that Serbian or Belarussian
transliteration can pass "live transliteration" without problems.
Chinese situation is almost clean: One set of characters should be
changed into another set. If they use Latin (or Cyrillic) alphabet
(for referencing) or Arabic numbers, they would not change it during
transliteration.
Transliteration between Cyrillic and Latin alphabets is complicated
because of a number of problems (Serbian Latin and Cyrillic
ortographies have some differences, too): If Latin alphabet in
Belarussian has equal status (such as in Serbian, almost) with
Cyrillic, you can't forbid writing in Latin. And if you want to
transliterate from Latin to Cyrillic, you'll have a lot of English
words transliterated in Cyrillic. Also, what about referencing in
Cyrillic? If you add some Russian bibliography, you'll have Russian
text transliterated into Latin.
So, I started to build some (static) infrastructure (using
pywikipediabot) for Serbian. As the situation is similar for
Belarussian, we can do it together (or you can use my code when I
finish it for Serbian Wikipedia).
On Mar 25, 2005 6:58 PM, monk(a)zoomcon.com <monk(a)zoomcon.com> wrote:
Hello wikitech-l,
Belarusian language (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_language)
has now two quite widely used alphabet versions - Cyrillics and Latin
(actually, it also has Arabic alphabet, but it is too rarely used).
For now, be: wikipedia uses Cyrillics. But we really need Latin
version for those, who prefers to use this alphabet. We have strict
bidirectional rules to transform any text between Cyrillics <-> Latin.
We are interested in creating of a "live mirror" (automatic
translator) between Cyrillics and Latin alphabets for be: Wikipedia.
I mean, it would be great, if anyone could read and submit any article
in either alphabet.
As far as i know, something similar was created for different
alphabets of Chinese language, so this issue should be worked over
already.
I'm myself an experienced PHP+MySQL developer, so I can directly
participate in this project.
Can anyone provide their thoughts and any help about this issue? It
is surely interesting and quite important thing.
Thank you.
--
Best regards,
Monk ([[en:User:Monkbel]] mailto:monk@zoomcon.com
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