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From:
Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Date:
December 3, 2003 06:02
Subject:
Re: Meaning of Transliterate [was Re: Poor State of the Man Pages]
Message ID:
20031203145917.17b7281d.rgarciasuarez@free.fr
Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Not exactly. When transliterating a spoken language in another spoken
> language, I may have more or less letters in each language for each sound
> than the other (depending on how it sounds). For example, in Hebrew the
> word "Shalom" has four letters while the English Transliteration has 6.

Hey, I've this great idea : let us start a completely off-topic thread
about transliteration and Unicode surrogates.
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