[Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL

[David Gerard]

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.