As I see, in this moment Serbian Wikipedia only needs:
1. Table for transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin.
2. Table for transliteration from Latin to Cyrillic with some
exceptions: Users should have possibility to split Latin digrams "lj",
"nj" and "dž" with some sign (let's say backslash:
"l\j", "n\j" and
"d\ž") if those digrams doesn't represent Cyrillic letter "љ",
"њ" and
"џ".
3. Other situations should be solved via exceptions.
I would like if we can make some interaction with Serbian Wiktionary
in the future. Also, I would like to have possibility to see all
exceptions from database. It would be very important linguistic
material.
"And now, something completely different!" :) Serbian language has two
standard alphabets and two standard variants: "ekavian" (standard in
Serbia) and "iyekavian" (standard in Republic of Srpska and
Montenegro). Is it possible to make some markup extension at the
character (and group of characters) level?
Serbian word for "milk" is in ekavian "mleko", but in iyekavian it is
"mlijeko". So, with some markup can bi written like "ml{e|ije}ko";
"bred" is "hleb" in ekavian and "hljeb" in iyekavian, so it
should be
written like "h{l|lj}eb". No one should be forced to use markup, but
there are some people at sr: who would do that.
In other words, Chinese Wikipedia has three variants and Serbian
should have four (ekavian Cyrillic and Latin, iyekavian Cyrillic and
Latin).
So, please, tell me what do I need to send you for Serbian
transliteration? I'll try to write something about Serbian
transliteration at Meta. Also, we should make some general page about
transliteration/conversion.
On 4/12/05, zhengzhu <zhengzhu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have started to write some documentation about the
Chinese
conversion system at meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chinese_conversion
People interested in implementing conversion systems for other
languages should take a look at it. Note that most features
implemented are not Chinese specific.
--
zhengzhu
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