From: Dean Snyder (dean.snyder@jhu.edu)
Date: Mon May 23 2005 - 16:37:33 CDT
Gregg Reynolds wrote at 4:23 PM on Monday, May 23, 2005:
>Dean Snyder wrote:
>> Buckwalter's transliteration of Arabic <http://www.qamus.org/
>> transliteration.htm> is, as are all transliterations, lossy. You cannot
>> tell, for example, from this transliteration that Arabic r & z are
>> differentiated only by a tiny dot. THAT is pertinent information in many
>> contexts.
>
>Huh? Latin "r" denotes the Arabic letter called ??? and Latin "z"
>denotes the letter called ???; where's the confusion?
Latin r in no way resembles Latin z; Arabic "r" & "z" are exactly alike
except for the tiny dot above "z".
>Can you tell that difference from the integers x0631 and x0632?
You can when they're rendered; and I have been talking all along about
loss of GLYPHIC correspondences in transliterations.
Respectfully,
Dean A. Snyder
Assistant Research Scholar
Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
Computer Science Department
Whiting School of Engineering
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