Renez wrote:I'm sorry, JKP, but you seem to be worried about a complete non-issue, while in fact there are many real issues in all transliterations.
One can always convert back and forth between sh and Sh using a script (and ivtt does it too), without loss of information.
I know you can convert back and forth. I'm a computer programmer. I convert all the time. I created my VMS concordance with conversions built into the software app. via a suite of scripts that I coded.
Collapsing EVA-S S (the first part of Sh) down to EVA-s s (which is a separate character that is not part of Sh) is not a non-issue for people doing computational attacks. They are different characters that are attached to different other glyphs in the VMS and which behave in different ways. It has nothing to do with variations in pronunciation.
Darrin was using an already-collapsed transcript so he may not even have known that EVA-Sh and EVA-sh are not the same thing (and that EVA-sh essentially doesn't exist in the VMS). He may wish to do other attacks after working through this one, so the sooner he has a good transcript that makes distinctions between benched gallows and unbenched gallows and between EVA-s and EVA-S, the better. How he does it is entirely up to him, but I'm sure that GIGO is not what he wants.