[Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL

[Neil Harris]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 21/12/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> When you get ?????? it makes sense to install more fonts. The use of IPA
>> is problematic because it is often done incorrectly and most people have
>> not had training to do IPA correctly. It takes a lot of training to do
>> this correctly. My name for instance is notoriously difficult to
>> pronounce for people who are not Dutch while even a name like "Bob"
>> should be written in many ways when you consider in how many ways it is
>> pronounced.
>>     
>
>
> Indeed. But we're not going to be able to make it a requirement of
> editing en:wp that users install more fonts on their (arguably broken)
> default-install Windows box.
>
>
> - d.
>   

And, as I keep on saying, the addition of the correct fonts to the 
user's browser does not magically grant the ability to read or even 
recognize characters in scripts that a reader is unused to. ("His name? 
It's three little boxes, and in the boxes there are a lot of little 
straight lines, apart from the ones that are like little hooks or 
squares. In the leftmost box, there's a bit of a gap at the bottom left, 
and then there's a sort of hooky bit hanging out at the right of the 
middle box, which has a few less lines, and then...")

-- Neil