[Israel.pm] Hebrew to english trans.

[Uri Bruck]

Uri Bruck wrote:
> Issac Goldstand wrote:
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>> Offer Kaye wrote:
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>>> On 10/17/07, Ernst, Yehuda wrote:
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>>>> Hello!
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>>>> does some one know if there is a module in perl that can translate
>>>>
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>>>> English to Hebrew letters.
>>>>
>>>> like
>>>>
>>>> hello    הלו
>>>> good    גוד
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>>> 1. Those aren't letters, they are words.
>>> 2. There is no such module that I know of. Or even any software...
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>>> Regards,
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>> There is definitely software.  Eli Marmor's Netmask.it! software does it
>> from english to hebrew (among the infinite other things that it does),
>> so it is possible...
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> I don't see any such claim on the Netmask.it site.
> Anyway, it seems to me that the original question may have been mis-phrased.
> If the question was about a program that substitutes words from a 
> glossary, then you just need a big enough glossary. If the question was 
> about transcribing English words in Hebrew letters, which is what the 
> provided examples look like, then it's about transcription, not 
> translation, and seeing that English spelling is inconsistent, it 
> wouldn't be trivial.
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Some of the problem with English spelling are illustrated by the Chaos Poem:
http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/caos.php#caos

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Thanks,
Uri
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