On 05/28/2001 05:30:15 AM Doug Ewell wrote:
>I know that neither UTC nor WG2 engages in the very controversial business
of
>assigning canonical transliterations between scripts
No, but ISO TC46/SC2 does. http://www.elot.gr/tc46sc2/
>The goal is to improve an existing program I wrote which automatically
>detects the encoding form of Cyrillic text (8-bit character sets such as
DOS
>CP 866, Windows CP 1251, or KOI-8, as well as UTF-8) and optionally
>transliterates the text to a 7-bit ASCII representation that an English
>speaker can reasonably sound out.
Do you want transliteration or transcription? TC46/SC2's definitions for
these can be seen at http://www.elot.gr/tc46sc2/purpose.html
>Lots of Cyrillic-Latin transliterations are available for the Russian
>alphabet. I am looking for one that targets only the 7-bit ASCII set,
which
>rules out ISO 9
Which is TC46/SC2's standard.
- Peter
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Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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