Re: [PING^8][PATCH v12] Locales: Cyrillic -> ASCII transliteration [BZ #2872]

[Carlos O'Donell <codonell@redhat.com>]

On 6/6/19 5:31 PM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
>>> Possible answers (Cyrillic -> Latin Extended -> ASCII):
>>>
>>> 1. "Ш" -> "Š" -> "SH"
>>>
>>>     e.g.: "Шема" -> "Šema" -> "SHema"
>>>           "Схема" ----------> "Shema"
>>>
>>> 2. "Ш" -> "Š" -> "Sh"
>>>
>>>     e.g.: "Шема" -> "Šema" -> "Shema"
>>>           "Схема" ----------> "Shema"
>>>
>>> Personally I don't like the answer 1. because "SHema" looks weird
>>> to me.  Egor in turn does not like the answer 2. because the output
>>> string becomes ambiguous.
>>>
>>> Should we maybe have a smart algorithm which would select the title
>>> case or the upper case of the output characters depending on the
>>> context in the word?  Note that it would not resolve the problem of
>>> the output text being ambiguous.
>>
>> It seems clear that there is no one right/wrong answer but it's a matter
>> of preference, especially the way this currently works. It might be an
>> improvement to output (for instance) SH instead of Sh if all the other
>> letters of a word are upper-case as well but not sure what would help
>> with the result being unambiguous.
> 
> I think you refer to the idea of implementing a smart algorithm which would
> adapt the lower/upper case depending on the context but indeed it would
> not resolve the problem of ambiguity.
> 
> So, the smart algorithm aside, what should be the preferred transliteration
> rule?

I have a weak preference for 1. However, I would change my preference if
someone showed me existing prior implementations that did 1 or 2.

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Cheers,
Carlos.