From: alex_land <doug.ybarbo@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T08:40:40+09:00
Subject: Re: language transliteration help..

On Jul 12, 5:11 pm, Aaron Smith <beingthexempl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is a good place to read about language transliteration? I have a
> piece of software that I want to provide language transliteration
> options.. Is there something in Ruby to do this.. (probnot). Just
> looking for a push in the right direction.. thanks all
>
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi Aaron:

Here are a few sources (i can't say i've looked at all Sites of this
type, but the one's i'm giving you, i have looked at and used):

1.  ForeignWord (http://www.foreignword.com/default_old.htm) list and
discusses many translation Apps (i'm using that term to include both
translation and transliteration, as they do, until they begin
discussing particular Apps);

2.  Not sure if you wanted actual translit tables for particular
langauges, but if you do, then i would suggest the Princeton Library
(what i'm giving you the link to is entirely public access)-e.g.,
here's an English-Azerbaijani translit table:
http://library.princeton.edu/departments/tsd/katmandu/sgman/traze.html

3.  Lastly, i wrote some translit scripts about two years ago (for
about two dozen languages, Romance languages, Germanic, and Slavic);
they are in C++ (absolutely no reason i did not code in Ruby other
than i didn't know it well enough at the time); I put them in one of
the major C++ repositories.  If you have SVN and want these, let me
know.

HTH,

-alex