OK, but if i understand correctly, LanguageConverter is already
integrated with the search engine.

2011/6/10 Philip Tzou <[email protected]>:
> strtr() is sufficient.** Current LC is based on it.
>
> 2011/6/10 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
>
>> There's a problem which is familiar to people who use non-Latin
>> alphabets in computers is that they sometimes forget to switch the
>> keyboard layout and type a whole word or even a sentence of gibberish
>> until they notice it. For example, people who use a Cyrillic keyboard
>> may search Google for "цшлшзувшф", when they actually meant to search
>> for "wikipedia", and vice versa - "dbrbgtlbz" when they meant
>> "википедия" (that's "wikipedia" in Russian). The Google search engine
>> is aware of it for a few years now and often automatically searches
>> for the desired term in a DWIM manner.
>>
>> Wikipedia's own search engine is not aware of it yet. A user in the
>> Hebrew Wikipedia had this idea: Maybe LanguageConverter can be used
>> for it? Common keyboard layouts can be mapped to each other, like the
>> two Serbian alphabet are mapped to each other today, and
>> Special:Search is already aware of LanguageConverter.

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