01-11-2026, 05:50 PM
(01-11-2026, 05:26 PM)Maruyama Toru wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[..]
In VAM, the character forms found in the original texts are mapped to the widely used Latin alphabet so that they can be processed by computer. This does not imply that the language of the manuscripts is Latin.
Understood.
The most languages using Latin alphabet are not Latin.
But for many languages, Latin alphabet is insufficient to transport all details, so they added several extra symbols during the centuries.
And those extra characters are only the things that can be seen clearly; in my language (German) are at least 3 different understandings of -ch-, but it is written only -ch- in all texts. German Th- is not English Th-, etc.
How will you see what is modeled in VMS in case the source language was never related or is hardly compatible to Latin?
How can you get something working with a reduced set of 14 characters?
Why don't you just use some existing transliteration and transcribe it to your VAM?