In a message dated 2001-05-29 4:28:09 Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> The goal is to improve an existing program I wrote which automatically
>> detects the encoding form of Cyrillic text (8-bit character sets such as
DOS
>> CP 866, Windows CP 1251, or KOI-8, as well as UTF-8) and optionally
>> transliterates the text to a 7-bit ASCII representation that an English
>> speaker can reasonably sound out.
>
> Do you want transliteration or transcription? TC46/SC2's definitions for
> these can be seen at http://www.elot.gr/tc46sc2/purpose.html
After reading these definitions, I see that I was mistaken in my terminology.
Since I am looking for conversions that are geared toward English speakers,
and explicitly favor solutions like "ch" for U+0427 instead of "tj" or
"tsch," the proper name for what I am trying to do is "transcription."
Thanks to Peter for pointing me toward the definitions, and apologies to John
Cowan for blowing him off when he tried to do the same.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
