What is really wanted is the ability to interpose another program between Google and your screen. Arabic has 2 problems. One of then is the script itself, the other is the fact that short vowels are omitted.
There are in fact 2 translteration schemes. There is the "rough sound" transliteration - no good for looking things up in the dictionary or for doing serious work. The other is the Buckwalter system. This is isomorphic one letter = one letter. Problem is - lower case is usually pronounced the weay it sounds but with many - one Arabic - Latin there are problems. For example $bAb - $abAb (NOUN) for youth. The $ = sh Buckwalters's dictionary on which I have based my own electronic dictionary gives 2 forms. The first being the way it is written character for character, the second including the short vowels. Note too that Arabic only has one case. Upper and lower case Latin refers to different characters. http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm defines the transliteration system. I use XML friendly. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/W/W08/W08-0511.pdf Account of teaching Arabic. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~jonsafari/arabiclg/bin/arabiclg.html You can download dictionary from here. - Ian Parker PS Writing the software for stand alone is a trivial task. The thing is to get Google to send you a template where you can input their HTML into your program seamlessly. This isn't just Arabic, this is a very general coordination problem. I too would be grateful for feedback on this one. On Nov 25, 1:40 pm, "N.K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wish Google Translate would also show the translation in the Roman > alphabet. > > For someone learning a new language (say Arabic), it is easier to read > the translation into Arabic when it is written in the Roman alphabet: > > Example: If "How Are You?" is also represented as "Kaifa haloka", > rather than simply كيف حالك؟ > > NK --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Translate" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
