On Saturday 26. March 2005. 22:52, Brion Vibber wrote:
zhengzhu wrote:
If the conversion between Cyrillics and Latin is
strictly one-to-one,
then it should be fairly simple to support that, since most related
code is already written. All we need is probably a mapping table
between the Cyrillics and the Latin alphabet. If you can put the table
somewhere, I can probably implement it and put up a test site fairly
quickly. But since I have no knowledge with those languages, I can be
wrong.
The last time this was brought up, I seem to recall that the conversion
is _not_ perfect; foreign words and names of either Latin or
Cyrillic-spelling origin may not use the generic conversions. Also if
you're quoting eg foreign-language text, math, or programming code (all
likely to come up in an encyclopedia) it's going to be harder; it'd be
necessary to be able to specify non-convertible text.
You remember correctly :) Basically, conversion from Cyrillc to Latin alphabet
is possible and easy to do; but conversion from Latin to Cyrillic is
impossible task. It would thus be possible to create a static Wikipedia
mirror in Latin alphabet, if there would be any need for it; but making it
editable and importing results back into Cyrillic would not work and only
create problems.