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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.
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== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Components_for_Unicode International Components for Unicode (ICU)] ==
 
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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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The nice thing about ICU is that we can add data to it. Chris has done this for several scripts. The tools are well developed already—it's simply a matter of adding data.
 
  
 
=== Front-ends that support Transliteration ===
 
=== Front-ends that support Transliteration ===
  
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* Xiphos
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* [[Frontends:Diatheke|Diatheke]]
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* [[Frontends:Xiphos|Xiphos]]
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* [[Frontends:BibleCS|The SWORD Project for Windows]] (''aka'' BibleCS)
  
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[[Category:SWORD Frontends|Transliteration]]
 
[[Category:Transliteration]]
 
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[[Category:Unicode]]
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=== Transliteration options ===
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[[Category:Utilities]]
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Whereas Xiphos offers transliteration as a module option, giving an alternative view of the module, other ideas might be explored by front-end developers. Here are some ideas that might be considered:
 
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* Interlinear display option, with the original text and transliterated text on alternate lines
 
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* Index the transliteration to provide search feature support
 

Latest revision as of 06:36, 17 May 2020

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

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