Enable Transliteration for Individual Languages
In cases where you need a particular transliteration, you can set GenericTransliteration
to False
and use the per-language transliteration schemes.
-
In the
[MyLanguage]
individual language configuration sections, set theTransliteration
parameter toTrue
orFalse
.
When you set GenericTransliteration
to False
, the IDOL Content component always performs transliteration for the languages in the following table, even if you also set Transliteration
to False
.
Language | Transliteration |
---|---|
Japanese |
Half width katakana to full width katakana Full width 0–9, A–Z, a–z to single byte 0–9, A–Z, a–z |
Chinese | Full width 0–9, A–Z, a–z to single byte 0–9, A–Z, a–z |
Greek | Accented Greek characters to non-accented characters |
Spanish | Accented vowels áéíóúü to non-accented vowels |
Portuguese | Accented vowels àáâãçéêíòóôõúü to non-accented vowels |
Russian | Some removal of characters |
Arabic Persian Sindhi Urdu Malay Malayalam Pushto |
Arabic character normalization |
Transliteration is optional for the language groups in the following table.
Language group | Transliteration |
---|---|
Western European |
àáâãä=a å=aa ç=c èéêë=e ìíîï=i òóôõö=o ø=oe ùúûü=u œ(oe)=oe æ=ae ß=ss ñ=nh ý=y ð=d þ=th |
German |
Same as Western European apart from: ä=ae ö=oe ü=ue |
Scandinavian |
Same as Western European apart from: ä=ae ö=oe ü=ue |
Catalan |
Same as Western European apart from: ç=sz |
Cyrillic |
All characters mapped to A–Z Transliteration scheme uses British Standard 2979:1958 |
South Slavic | For transliteration scheme, refer to A Handbook of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian by Brown & Alt. |
The following table describes the languages that each of these language groups contain.
Western European |
Czech Dutch English French Hungarian |
Italian Maori Mirandese Polish Portuguese |
Romanian Slovakian Spanish Turkish |
German | German | ||
Scandinavian |
Danish Finnish Icelandic |
Norwegian Swedish |
|
Catalan | Catalan | ||
Cyrillic |
Russian Tajik |
||
South Slavic |
Bosnian Serbian Croatian |
For all other languages, transliteration does not apply, except for hyphen normalization.
For full details of the transliteration of different characters in different transliteration modes, refer to IDOL Expert.