On 14/08/12 08:57, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
2012/8/14 Nikola Smolenski<smole...@eunet.rs>:I believe it should be possible to alleviate this problem to an extent by introducing automatic transcription between languages and specifying what language the mayor's "default" name is in. If automatic transcription gets it wrong, it could still be overriden when someone enters the name in another language.It is guaranteed to be profoundly broken. The above-mentioned Hebrew names will be transliterated as<'mrm mcn'> (the apostrophes are part
Would it? How many Hebrew names are there that are spelled "עמרם"? If the transliteration software knows it's a human name it can transliterate it as "Amram".
of the transliteration!) and<ywnh yhb>. The same problem applies to Arabic, Punjabi and many other languages. Without manual maintenance it will perpetuate horrendously wrong transliteration. Some very limited auto-transliteration is OK, but just as a suggestion. I was actually going to write an email about that. But it must not be automatic all the way and propagate to all wikis.
On the other hand, we don't even need transliteration for a huge amount of languages which keep the spelling from the original language, and then there is a somewhat smaller number of languages where transliteration is unambiguous. In these cases we may use transliteration freely.
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