[sword-devel] Transliteration / Bug in J

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Christian,
	Yes, I've been wanting to add some new options where you can select a 
function if hovering and a _switch_ key (CRTL, SHIFT, ALT) was being 
held down.  I was thinking alternate dictionaries or Bibles, but 
transliteration is a really good idea also!

	Currently we use IBM's ICU library for our transliteration.  I don't 
believe that it offers more than one transliteration option for a given 
string.  Not sure how they decide which one to return.

	Thanks for the suggestion!
		-Troy.


	 Renz wrote:
> I think the transliteration might be even more more useful if it is
> displayed after the word itself (maybe in brackets) or as a popup like
> the Strong's explanations (I didn't try that out myself yet, but it
> sure sounds useful). Otherwise you need to switch back and forth all
> the time, especially if you don't know the language well -- which is
> rather troublesome because there is no keyboard shortcut.
> 
> Something which should be considered is that a transliteration may be
> ambiguos. For example, several hundred characters have more than one
> transliteration and the correct one depends on the context. It would
> be helpful if sword could display all of them rather than just the one
> it thinks is correct. (How does sword come up with the transliteration
> anyway?)
> 
> Also, in Version J it seems the menu item that allos the activation of
> the transliteration disappeared.
> 
> Greetings,
>   Christian
>