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(Front-ends that support Transliteration: STEP doesn't use ICU or Sword's standard transliteration facilities and is thus severely less capable relative to other front ends)
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Some SWORD front-end applications use ICU enabled libsword to provide a transliteration feature.  The tools are well developed already—it's simply a matter of adding data.
  
== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Components_for_Unicode International Components for Unicode (ICU)] ==
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=== Front-ends that support Transliteration ===
  
Some SWORD front-end applications use libsword ICU to provide a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration transliteration] feature.  For example, in [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]], when you right-click in a non-Latin script module, you can see this in action.
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* [[Frontends:Diatheke|Diatheke]]
 
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* [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]]
The nice thing about ICU is that we can add data to it. Chris has done this for several writing systems. The tools are well developed already—it's simply a matter of adding data.
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* [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]] (''aka'' BibleCS)
 
 
Other frontends, use research from scholarly organisations and can now render high-quality transliterations of the greek words, including syllable markers in the Hebrew. STEP Bible is an example of this.
 
 
 
=== Front-ends that support Transliteration ===
 
  
* Xiphos
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=== See also ===
* The SWORD Project for Windows (''aka'' BibleCS)
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* [[OSIS Bibles#Marking_encoded_transliterations|Transliterated forms]]
* BPBible – available only if compiled with ICU
 
  
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[[Category:SWORD Frontends|Transliteration]]
 
[[Category:Transliteration]]
 
[[Category:Transliteration]]
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[[Category:Unicode]]
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[[Category:Utilities]]

Latest revision as of 07:23, 1 April 2025

Some SWORD front-end applications use ICU enabled libsword to provide a transliteration feature. The tools are well developed already—it's simply a matter of adding data.

Front-ends that support Transliteration

See also