[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single user login
Tim Starling
tstarling at wikimedia.org
Wed Apr 9 12:42:57 UTC 2008
Mark Williamson wrote:
>> Is anyone willing to help find or compile transcription tables for a wide
>> variety of languages?
>
> See ICU's transform function. http://www.icu-project.org/
>
> I can help compile transcription tables for ones not provided there.
ICU is probably the best of those available. But it's not perfect.
* It aims for reversibility, adding odd punctuation to distinguish between
similar source strings. We would prefer readable if somewhat ambiguous output.
* It doesn't have any support for Japanese or Korean readings of the
unified han, as Mark noted.
* We would have to write a command line wrapper program for that part of
the library.
-- Tim Starling
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