transliteration

[C++] UTF-8 to ASCII using ICU Library

I have a std::string with UTF-8 characters in it. I want to convert the string to its closest equivalent with ASCII characters. For example: Łódź => Lodz Assunção => Assuncao Schloß => Schloss Unfortunatly ICU library is realy unintuitive and I haven't found good documentation on its usage, so it would take me too much time to l...

Using google transliteration in Flex

Attached code is an example of how to use Google transliteration feature in certain html textboxes. I need to enable the same transliteration feature for a flex application. Is there a way I could do it? <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <script type="text/javas...

Problem in returning values from javascript function to flex

In the attached flex code, I am trying to call a javascript function in its HTML wrapper. The example is also live at : http://www.cse.epicenterlabs.com/mbm/ajax_api.html The problem I am facing is, that I have to click the button twice to get the desired output. Seems like there is some delay in setting the "output" variable. How could ...

pear php translit gives error

hi i'm working on a multilanguage project and. and i'm having some problemsi with iconv's //TRANSLIT. so i found this package. i succesfuly installed that package to my linux box but when i tried to install it on windows pear gives this error: ERROR: The DSP translit.dsp does not exist. i couldn't find i compiled dll eigther. can you h...

PHP Transliteration

Are there any solutions that will convert all foreign characters to A-z equivalents? I have searched extensively on Google and could not find a solution or even a list of characters and equivalents. The reason is I want to display A-z only URLs, plus plenty of other trip ups when dealing with these characters. ...

Transliteration in ruby

What is the simplest way for transliteration of non English characters in ruby. That is conversion such as: translit "Gévry" #=> "Gevry" ...

Can I use the y operator to do a non-one-to-one transliteration in Perl?

The y operator in Perl does character-by-character transliteration. For example, if we do y/abc/dfg to the string "foobar", we get "foofdr". But what if I want to transliterate "ā" to "ei" and "ä" to "a:" and "ō" to "әu" and "o" to "ɒ". I tried the following line of code but no luck:( y/āäōo/(ei)(a:)(әu)ɒ/ Do we hopefully have a wor...

How to transliterate Cyrillic to Latin text

I have a method which turns any Latin text (e.g. English, French, German, Polish) into its slug form, e.g. "Alpha Bravo Charlie" => "alpha-bravo-charlie" But it can't work for Cyrillic text (e.g. Russian), so what I'm wanting to do is transliterate the Cyrillic text to Latin characters, then slugify that. Does anyone have a way to do ...

Slugify and Character Transliteration in C#

I'm trying to translate the following slugify method from PHP to C#: http://snipplr.com/view/22741/slugify-a-string-in-php/ Edit: For the sake of convenience, here the code from above: /** * Modifies a string to remove al non ASCII characters and spaces. */ static public function slugify($text) { // replace non letter or digits ...

Python - to check if a char is in dictionary and if not to deal with it

I am going about transliteration from one source language(input file) to a target language(target file) so I am checking for equivalent mappings in a dictionary in my source code, certain characters in the source code don't have an equivalent mapping like comma(,) and all other such special symbols. How do I check if the character belong...

Python - codec encoding ascii to unicode: error

Hi..:) I am trying to go about the process of reversing transliteration of an input file(currently in english) back to its original form(in hindi) A sample or a part of the input file looks like this: E-k- b-u-d-z*dhi-m-aan- p-ksii# E-k- ghn-e- j-ngg-l- m-e-ng E-k- b-h-u-t- UUNNc-aa p-e-dr thaa# U-s- k-ii p-t-z*t-o-ng s-e- l-d-ii shaa...

Is there any free opensource PHP translit lib?

so I have lots of users posting articles with names in different languages. I need some lib to translate thouse article names to english letters for example turn russian 'р' into eng 'r' and so on for all european languages, russian and asian languages. Where to get such lib? 45 seconds of google gave me this "This extension allows you ...

Search for Transliteration tables

So If your native language is not EN_US or you know any other spoken language just fine you can esely contribute!) The Arabic Alphabet and Its Transliteration The Bulgarian Alphabet and Its Transliteration Wanted! ** Bahasa Indonesia Bahasa Melayu Català Česky Dansk Deutsch Eesti Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Euskara فارسی Français...

Google AJAX Transliteration API: Is it possible to make all input fields in the page transliteratable?

Hello, I've used "Google AJAX Transliteration API" and it's going well with me. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/referenceTransliteration.html Currently I've a project that I need all input fields in every page (input & textarea tags) to be transliteratable, while these input fields differs from page to page (dyn...

persian transliteration java api

I need transliterate ENglish to Persian and I want to use it in offline mode , is there any free api that I use offline ? ...

Using Google's transliteration on blocks of text?

Would it be possible to transliterate text blocks (say, after being copied and pasted in to a control) using the Google Transliteration API? Instead of having the transliteration work on text as it is being typed as it would with say: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#TransliterationHelloWorld If so, how would I g...

[SOLVED] Perl's tr/// is not doing what I want...

EDIT: tr/// does not support variable interpolation, so I went with s/\Q$_\E//g; instead Or, more likely, I'm not doing something right... I have the following code: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use utf8; sub strip_invalid { my ($str, @chars) = @_; map { $str =~ tr/$_//; } @chars; return $str; } my @invalid = q...

i want to make it's comment form transliteration ready ! how to apply jjavascript on external iframe

Hello dear all, i am experimenting on blogger comment form, i want to make it's comment form transliteration ready , visitor can comment in their own languages. so i want to know that how to apply a javascript on external iframe which content a form "#commentBodyField" i have to apply a javascript code on this #commentBodyField. can we...

iconv utf-8 to ascii transliteration in mod_php/apache2

I need to compare strings and match names to one another even if they are not spelled the same way. For example DÉSIRÉ-Smith should match Desireesmith as well as Desiree or Desi'ree Smith So i had the following approch which worked perfectly in the command line using PHP-CLI: <? class Alike { static function convertAlike...

Transliteration from Ethiopic (and others) to ASCII (ሀ -> ha; ü -> ue)

I am not yet so good with reading Amharic (Geez / Ethiopic) letters. If I have a text in Ge'ez (Ethiopia) letters ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%27ez_language ) I want to transliterate them to ASCII. When I go with the LYNX Textmode browser to http://www.addismap.com/am/ (webpage in Amharic) it showes me "edis map: yeedis ebeba kart...