As I see, in this moment Serbian Wikipedia only needs:
1. Table for transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin.
2. Table for transliteration from Latin to Cyrillic with some exceptions: Users should have possibility to split Latin digrams "lj", "nj" and "dž" with some sign (let's say backslash: "l\j", "n\j" and "d\ž") if those digrams doesn't represent Cyrillic letter "љ", "њ" and "џ".
3. Other situations should be solved via exceptions.
I would like if we can make some interaction with Serbian Wiktionary in the future. Also, I would like to have possibility to see all exceptions from database. It would be very important linguistic material.
"And now, something completely different!" :) Serbian language has two standard alphabets and two standard variants: "ekavian" (standard in Serbia) and "iyekavian" (standard in Republic of Srpska and Montenegro). Is it possible to make some markup extension at the character (and group of characters) level?
Serbian word for "milk" is in ekavian "mleko", but in iyekavian it is "mlijeko". So, with some markup can bi written like "ml{e|ije}ko"; "bred" is "hleb" in ekavian and "hljeb" in iyekavian, so it should be written like "h{l|lj}eb". No one should be forced to use markup, but there are some people at sr: who would do that.
In other words, Chinese Wikipedia has three variants and Serbian should have four (ekavian Cyrillic and Latin, iyekavian Cyrillic and Latin).
So, please, tell me what do I need to send you for Serbian transliteration? I'll try to write something about Serbian transliteration at Meta. Also, we should make some general page about transliteration/conversion.
On 4/12/05, zhengzhu zhengzhu@gmail.com wrote:
I have started to write some documentation about the Chinese conversion system at meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chinese_conversion
People interested in implementing conversion systems for other languages should take a look at it. Note that most features implemented are not Chinese specific.
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