I was about to complain about the transliteration 'Mikhail Gorbachev', but
then I saw that this was discussed before (I am new to the list) and that it
is how English does the transliteration of ë.
Still... What I put here is U+00EB (Latin small letter E with diaresis)
which looks like U+0451 (Cyrillic small letter Io). One wonders, was the
English transliteration ë to e 'defined' for U00EB and should be ë to o (or
yo) for U0451?
Anyway, after I browsed quickly through some previous postings, I realized
that transliteration is far from simple. But after playing with Tex's sample
for a day or two (and doing related searches on the web) I also realized
that some form of transliteration will need to be provided to implement
loose searching. Unicode will encourage more and more people to write names
(people, places, etc) 'correctly'. Without transliteration, searching will
become very unreliable - to say the least...
My two cents.
Regards to all,
Lars
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tex Texin [mailto:texin@progress.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 08:51
> To: Unicoders
> Subject: Re: Compelling Unicode demo
>
>
> The page has been updated again. It is getting to be pretty
> cool, thanks
> to new submissions for Inuktitut, Eritrean, Ethiopean, and others.
> It also has a link for ICU's online transliteration page.
> If you have trouble displaying it, there is a link to the
> Unicode site's
> helper page.
>
> I have to fix a problem with the name for Thailand, that will be
> tomorrow.
>
> A few more entries, exotic or otherwise, would make my weekend! ;-)
> For the exotic ones, pointers to the relevant fonts would be helpful.
>
> I find IE 5.5 displays it well. I use Netscape 4.7 which has trouble
> with Hebrew among other things.
> If you use another browser, I would be interested in reports on which
> ones work well.
> (Don't bother to tell me which ones don't work.)
>
> thanks
> tex
>
> http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html
>
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