7-bit Meta-Transliterations for 8-bit Romanizations
Lagally, Klaus
- Abstract
- We propose a general strategy for deriving 7-bit encodings for texts in
languages which use an alphabetic non-Roman script, like Arabic, Persian,
Sanskrit and many other Indic scripts, and for which there is some
transliteration convention using Roman letters with additional diacritical
marks. These schemes, which we will call ``meta-transliterations'', are based
on using single ASCII letters for representing Roman letters, and digraphs
consisting of a suitable punctuation character and an ASCII letter for
representing letters with diacritics. A meta-transliteration is required to be
uniquely reversible, human readable, and close to the intended transliteration.
We present an example of a scheme that has been in use for several years to
transliterate texts in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, and Biblical Hebrew.
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