[windev] Converting from greek....

[Serge Wautier]

Roberto,

Would you care to tell us why you want to implement transliteration? It's
not every day that someone comes with such a requirement;-)
Is it only to index the data? If yes, why don't you use Unicode encodings.
UTF-8 (which is ASCII friendly) might be a good candidate.

I never investigated tools to perform accurate transliteration, which indeed
is not a trivial job. 
But you can fairly easily roll your own if you don't need too much accuracy,
using the first 2 columns of this table:

<http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/transforms/Latin-Greek.html>

Note that this table converts a Unicode code point into another one. It
doesn't use 'ANSI' codepages. According to your needs, you may have to
convert the source from codepage 1253 to Unicode and/or the result from
Unicode to codepage 1252, which may prevent you from using some of the
'advanced' characters in the table.

HTH,

Serge.
http://www.apptranslator.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: windev-bounces at windev.org [mailto:windev-bounces at windev.org] On
> Behalf Of Roberto Tirabassi
> Sent: mercredi 25 mars 2009 10:50
> To: Windows Developers (Mailing List)
> Subject: [windev] Converting from greek....
> 
> Hi Gurus...
> 
> I'm facing this problem... I have to extract and index text from xml
> files that can contain many different languages, even greek. I'm still
> not facing mid-eastern languages... I'll be satisfied if I can
> transliter greek...
> 
> A better explanation: most european letters languages can be expressed
> into ASCII chars plus a modificator (I mean, an accent and so on). As
> everybody know, http://www.zakynthian.com/index1
> <http://www.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.zakynthian.com/ellas_fla
> g.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zakynthian.com/index1&h=450&w=600&sz=36&tbni
> d=1J7b9VAYMMZutM::&tbnh=101&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dellas&usg=__Wnp
> 08j0ycwue7vEPnCph4Isb4Y0=&ei=GP3JSZq0EtqRsAaRzKiuAg&sa=X&oi=image_resul
> t&resnum=5&ct=image&cd=1>
> can be written as ELLAS. I tried using iconv in many ways but did not
> find the way to convert such values. Shoul I do it on my own or is
> there
> a way (using libiconv or not) to obtain such a transiltaretion?
> Thanks.
> 
>      Roberto Tirabassi.
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