Re: [PATCH] locale/C-translit.h.in: Greek -> ASCII transliteration table [BZ #12031]

["Diego (Egor) Kobylkin" <egor at kobylkin dot com>]

Yes, I have received an explicit suggestion to drop the Tonos, (it showing 

that the vowel is a monophthong, not diphthong?). I assume it doesn't alter 

the pronunciation. Unfortunately the Expert didn't want to be explicitly 

referenced so included here on BCC.

>Ich hätte da noch einen "Änderungswunsch": ich würde
>TONOS (Akzent) und DIALYTIKA (zeigt, dass Vokal nicht Teil eines
>Zwielautes ist) gar nicht wiedergeben. Also:
>
>0388  Έ: E (nicht E`)  GREEK CAPITAL LETTER EPSILON WITH TONOS
>0389  Ή: E (nicht E`)  GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS
>03CB  ϋ: y (nicht y`)  GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA
>03CD  ύ: y (nicht y`)  GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH TONOS
>
>...

And also there was a confirmation that substituting HOOK SYMBOLs with ` should
be fine. 

>Hingegen ist Ihre Wiedergabe des HOOK SYMBOLs mit ` keine schlechte
>Idee. (Die Funktion dieser Zeichenvariante ist mir unbekannt.)


I'm totally transparent as to how these questions should be handled. In the sense
that if somebody has a reason to transliterate in any different way I would be 

fine with that.

Bests,
Diego (Egor) Kobylkin

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Friday, November 8, 2019 8:43 PM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> * Diego Kobylkin:
> 

> > AFAIK there are many versions of transcription tables for Greek to ASCII
> > transcription. Given that current iconv logic can only translit one to many
> > but not many to many symbols we take the "Standard" part of
> > the Romanization_of_Greek#Modern_Greek table [3]
> 

> I've got a question about this entry (and related ones):
> 

> +"\x0389" "E" # <U0389> GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH TONOS
> 

> Do you have a source for this? Your references generally transcribe η
> as i. Does the tonos alter the pronunciation?

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