Neil Hodgson wrote: > This is anecdotal but it appears to me that transliterations are > not commonly used apart from learning languages and some minimal help > for foreigners such as including transliterated names on railway > station name boards.
That would be my guess also. Transliteration is clearly common for Latin-based languages (French, German, Spanish, say), but I doubt non-Latin scripts are that often transliterated (even if conventions exist). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com