Re: Wade -> Pinyin transliteration (Unihan ?)

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Thu Jan 24 2002 - 22:15:22 EST

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Patrick Andries scripsit:

> Let's assume I want to "transliterate" a large Wade-Giles database into
> pinyin. It this a purely algorithmic process? For all nouns ? Common and
> proper (cf. Chiang Kai-Shek vs Jiang Jeshi )? Even for "dialectal" words?

"Chiang Kai-Shek" isn't Wade-Giles; it isn't even Mandarin.

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