05-03-2025, 05:30 AM
Everyone is welcome to create his own transliteration, and everyone is welcome to create his own transliteration alphabet.
These are two different things of course.
When it comes to changing or improving the transliteration alphabet, I have created, and made public available, a tool to do that very conveniently. I use it constantly.
The only problem I see in the above reasoning, and which I have been seeing over the last 20+ years, is a misunderstanding what is the purpose of a transliteration alphabet.
It is NOT meant to indicate the meaning of the character. Just to represent the shape.
When shapes appear in different contexts, their meaning can vary depending on the context.
There is no way of knowing (just yet) whether ch is a single character and/or cth is a single character.
These are just text strings that your software can process.
These are two different things of course.
When it comes to changing or improving the transliteration alphabet, I have created, and made public available, a tool to do that very conveniently. I use it constantly.
The only problem I see in the above reasoning, and which I have been seeing over the last 20+ years, is a misunderstanding what is the purpose of a transliteration alphabet.
It is NOT meant to indicate the meaning of the character. Just to represent the shape.
When shapes appear in different contexts, their meaning can vary depending on the context.
There is no way of knowing (just yet) whether ch is a single character and/or cth is a single character.
These are just text strings that your software can process.
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