Re: Serbian language (Cyrillic and Latin versions)
Nikos-Optim <optim81-/[email protected]> Tue, 13 Jan 2004 06:48:04 -0800 (PST)
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the conversion could be incorporated in MediaWiki engine. There can be a link "Greeklish version" next to the "Printable version" link. After clicking on it, MediaWiki will transliterate the document and present it to the user. --Optim --- Pablo Saratxaga <pablo-7Aj/b8uzpy6AmYF/[email protected]> wrote: > Kaixo! > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:01:44AM -0800, > Nikos-Optim wrote: > > It can be done in an automated way. > > > > Conversion software already exists and I can also > > write my own software. > > The problem is synchronization. > > If converting from greek/cyrillic may be easy; the > other way is not > (as there are things that you want not to convert). > Also, particularly in cyrillic, there may be things > that are not > easily convertible (eg the native name of someone or > some place in > Ucrainia can have letters not used in Serbian; a > conversion back and > forth will destroy it). > > While for reading it may be useful; contributions in > mixed alphabet > will probably hurt. > > -- > Ki ça vos våye bén, > Pablo Saratxaga > > http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, > key ID: 0xD9B85466 > [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, > English, Italian or Portuguese] > > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature > _______________________________________________ > Intlwiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/intlwiki-l __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus