buglibiconv - Bugs: bug #32952, Transliteration improvements

 
 

bug #32952: Transliteration improvements

Submitted by:  Krisaniya <krisaniya>
Submitted on:  Wed 30 Mar 2011 01:01:36 PM UTC  
 
Category: TransliterationSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Wont Fix
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Bruno Haible <haible>
Open/Closed: Closed

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Sun 05 Jun 2011 06:41:57 PM UTC, comment #1:

Thank you for the patch.

Unfortunately, such transliterations are
1) not language-neutral: The name "Gorbatchov" in English
is written "Gorbatchev" in France and "Gorbatschow" in German.
Another example is that GREEK CAPITAL LETTER XI would be "x"
in German, and GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI would be "ch".
2) Possibly hard to understand: When you transliterate
GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA to "W", the sound of "O" may
be lost.

For reasons like this, also glibc contains no transliterations
for Cyrillic or Greek characters, only language-neutral ones:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=localedata/locales/translit_neutral;hb=HEAD

And glibc internally supports per-locale transliterations, while
libiconv does not yet even have code for this.

In summary, I think transliterations need to be language aware
and possibly contain special rules for special word patterns
in each language. It's outside the scope of libiconv.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 30 Mar 2011 01:01:36 PM UTC, original submission:

That patch is intended to improve transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek characters. Right now they don't have any.

Krisaniya <krisaniya>

 

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file #23059:  tr.diff.gz added by krisaniya (3KiB - application/x-gzip)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Thu 24 Nov 2016 12:02:46 AM UTChaibleCategoryNone=>Transliteration
    Sun 05 Jun 2011 06:41:57 PM UTChaibleStatusNone=>Wont Fix
      Assigned toNone=>haible
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 30 Mar 2011 01:01:36 PM UTCkrisaniyaAttached File-=>Added tr.diff.gz, #23059

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