Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards latin- >arabic

From: Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin (antonio@tuvalkin.web.pt)
Date: Tue Jul 06 2004 - 13:40:07 CDT

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    On 2004.07.06, 14:00, Peter Kirk <peterkirk@qaya.org> wrote:

    > sometimes the names in different languages are related, and
    > sometimes they are not e.g. Turku/Åbo in Finland, or
    > Yerushalayim/al-Quds, or Dublin/

    Baile Átha Cliath. (Formerly, with U+1E6B for the "th".)

    > This makes it not a transliteration problem but a translation
    > problem,

    Quite right!

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