Re: Serbian language (Cyrillic and Latin versions)

Pablo Saratxaga 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).
>
For transliteration the Cyrillic script languages divide into two groups 
with Serbian and Macedonian in one group, and Russian, Byelorussian, 
Ukrainian and Bulgarian in the other.  The former group differs in that 
it follows Croatian usage with a š instead of a sh etc.

Ec