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

[Mark Davis]

When we looked into this, the problem we found is that there are many
standards.

We ended up with the following in ICU (see
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr for a demo,
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/Transform.html for descriptions).
I believe that we followed the UNGEGN conventions, with added accents to
support round-tripping. Note that while we have the ability to have
different transliterations for different languages, or for variant
transliterations, we have not added any as yet. (The '>' means 'transforms
into' below).

Ù > '.Ì';
Ù > ',Ì';
Ø > ',';
Ø > ';';
Ø > '?';
Ù > '%';
Û > 0Ì;
Û > 1Ì;
Û > 2Ì;
Û > 3Ì;
Û > 4Ì;
Û > 5Ì;
Û > 6Ì;
Û > 7Ì;
Û > 8Ì;
Û > 9Ì;
Ù > 0;
Ù > 1;
Ù > 2;
Ù > 3;
Ù > 4;
Ù > 5;
Ù > 6;
Ù > 7;
Ù > 8;
Ù > 9;
ÙØ > aÌ;
ÙÙ > uÌ;
ÙÙ > iÌ;
Ø > thÌ;
Ø > dhÌ;
Ø > shÌ;
Ø > sÌ;
Ø > dÌ;
Ø > tÌ;
Ø > zÌ;
Ø > ghÌ;
Ø > tÌ;
Ú > zhÌ;
Ú > nÌg;
Û > vÌ;
Û > yÌ;
Ø > Ê;
Ø > aÌ;
Ø > b;
Ø > t;
Ø > j;
Ø > hÌ;
Ø > khÌ;
Ø > d;
Ø > r;
Ø > z;
Ø > s;
Ø > Ê;
Ù > ;
Ù > f;
Ù > q;
Ù > k;
Ù > l;
Ù > m;
Ù > n;
Ù > h;
Ù > w;
Ù > yÌ;
Ù > y;
Ù > aâ;
Ù > uâ;
Ù > iâ;
Ù > a;
Ù > u;
Ù > i;
Ù > Ì;
Ù > Ì;
Ù > Ì;
Ù > Ì;
Ù > Ì;
Ù > p;
Ú > chÌ;
Ú > v;
Ú > g;


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anto'nio Martins-Tuva'lkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 08:34
Subject: Re: Looking for transcription or transliteration standards
latin->arabic


> On 2004.06.30, 18:56, Jo"rg Knappen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Are there standards for transscribing or transliterating western
> > languages written in latin to arabic?
>
> A real transliteration should work both ways, shouldn't it?
>
> (I managed to deeply shock a former KGB-bueraucrat when applying for a
> Russian residence permit by spelling my sixth brother's name, Henrique
> as ÐÐÐÑÐÑÑÐ...)
>
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