[Foundation-l] [Wikitech-l] Primary account for single user login

Wed Apr 9 13:05:34 UTC 2008

Hoi,
If it does not even support Japanese or Korean, then it is extremely
unlikely to support Armenian, Georgian, Amharic, Kannada, Bengali ... If it
does not what is the point ???
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Mark Williamson wrote:
> >>  Is anyone willing to help find or compile transcription tables for a
> wide
> >>  variety of languages?
> >
> > See ICU's transform function. http://www.icu-project.org/
> >
> > I can help compile transcription tables for ones not provided there.
>
> ICU is probably the best of those available. But it's not perfect.
>
> * It aims for reversibility, adding odd punctuation to distinguish between
> similar source strings. We would prefer readable if somewhat ambiguous
> output.
> * It doesn't have any support for Japanese or Korean readings of the
> unified han, as Mark noted.
> * We would have to write a command line wrapper program for that part of
> the library.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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