Unicode transliteration table package: transtab

[Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have decided to publish and maintain my transliteration table now as a
proper package:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/transtab.tar.gz

Greeklish, Greek polytonic->monotonic downgrading and Cyrillic are still
missing (plus all the non-European scripts), but the rest is now already
in pretty good shape. The table comes in ISO/IEC TR 14652 format, to
allow simple inclusion into POSIX locale definition files. 

If you feel like providing a (preferably) Latin transliteration for a
not yet covered script, let me know which one, and I'll prepare you a
template file that you can fill in very easily. Also a Perl script
and Unix Makefile for reformatting the table is included.

Also pointers to any information on transliteration are very welcome.

ISO has for example:

  ISO 9:1995 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of
  Cyrillic characters into Latin characters -- Slavic and non-Slavic languages 

  ISO 233:1984 Documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic characters into
  Latin characters 

  ISO 233-2:1993 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Arabic
  characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Arabic language --
  Simplified transliteration 

  ISO 233-3:1999 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of
  Arabic characters into Latin characters -- Part 3: Persian language
  -- Simplified transliteration (available in English only) 

  ISO 259:1984 Documentation -- Transliteration of Hebrew characters
  into Latin characters 

  ISO 259-2:1994 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of
  Hebrew characters into Latin characters -- Part 2: Simplified transliteration 

  ISO 9984:1996 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of
  Georgian characters into Latin characters 

  ISO 9985:1996 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of
  Armenian characters into Latin characters 
 
  ISO 11940:1998 Information and documentation -- Transliteration of Thai 

  ISO/TR 11941:1996 Information and documentation -- Transliteration
  of Korean script into Latin characters 

but I have only access to some of these (in the form of my copy of
ISO's 1991 Information and documentation handbook).

Please email me any pointers to good documents describing the
established practices that people use in email and on typewriters to
represent unavailable characters and let me know where my table differs
from these.

Markus

-- 
Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>

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