So if I was trying to write my fake name in Polish, or for a Pole to read, I would write it as "Tendou Rjuud{U+017E}i"?
That would be transliteration, right?
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$B7oL>(B: Re: Unicode transliterations (and other operations)
>I trust that 'moving' a name or a term between languages would be called transcription, not transliteration. Transliteration just tries to 'move' from script to script.
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>Markus Scherer writes:
> > > Looks interesting. How are you approaching the complication that transliteration is between pairs of languages?
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> > I know what you mean: Gorbachev is Gorbatschow in German.
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>This would then be an example of transcription, which differs on language pair basis, as it tries to get the speakers to pronounce the same word.
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> > I think that the rules that we have in ICU are probably English-centric where it makes a difference.
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>Vladimir Weinstein, IBM GCoC-Unicode/ICU Cupertino, CA, weiv@jtcsv.com
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