From: Robert Parker Date: 2007-07-14T17:32:35+09:00 Subject: Re: language transliteration help.. On 7/13/07, John Joyce wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2007, at 7:30 PM, Robert Parker wrote: > > > On 7/13/07, Glen Holcomb wrote: > >> Nothing I know of but it sounds like a good thing to use a hash for. > > > > Maybe not. There is usually no 1 for 1 correspondence between words of > > different languages. It needs context to determine the translated > > meaning. > > > > Bob > > > Not words but phonetics. OP said transliteration. You are right, I read the OP carelessly. Even so the argument still applies for some languages. Eg English-Thai requires a mapping between 1 Thai symbol to a pair of symbols in English for many Thai consonants and also most vowels. Not only that, Thai has 44 sounds for consonants beginning a syllable but only 8 sounds for those at the end. Cheers Bob