In specific transliteration, I've yet to come across a comprehensive table of characters – that includes multiple standards. Is there anything like this already available? (Wikipedia is good, but limited by writing system). Linked below is an sample that I'm working on, with IJMES as a starting point (Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish).
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k3zbkkn877547qy/IJMES_Transliteration_Char.xls?dl=0Any comments or tips would be amazing. I'm aware there must be a body of resources out there, but it's often difficult to know where to start. If there are some good things available, I'll happily use those instead.
Thanks in advance!
1) Any critiques, incl. vocabulary / useful fields?
2) Are there any good resources you'd recommend? For example…
- Transliteration standards / tables
- Unicode tables, incl. component characters
- Similar tools / tables
3) Would anyone find this useful to have available?
Comments
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/transforms/ or CLDR also has a few of those.
The ALA-LC tables are publicly available at www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html
and the UNGEGN romanization systems at http://www.eki.ee/wgrs/
It might be a bit tricky to have the ISO or DIN romanization systems in a public tables, they are quite expensive to acquire. For the DIN romanization systems, there’s a book with a lot of them for much cheaper than each separately: Umschriften in Bibliotheken http://www.beuth.de/de/publikation/umschriften-in-bibliotheken/124371274.
I'll confirm with our editors regarding DIN and ISO, I'm still in discussion with them on the extent of their requirements. It's extremely helpful to know that there is such a resource for many of the DIN systems. Thank you again.
@Dave Crossland Text specifications, the more we can premeditate the better.
I suspect Pim at Brill might have some tables he would be willing to share, documenting Brill's practices. Their needs are likely similar to your own.
https://github.com/font-store/Persian-Font-Testing-Page
https://github.com/font-store/RitaFontTester
and for Unicode tables, incl. component characters for persian can check this font https://github.com/font-store/font-farboad
for persian/arabic tables https://github.com/w3c/alreq