[sword-devel] One of those weird ideas....

[DM Smith]

peter wrote:
>>> Along those lines, a tool to transliterate Greek, Hebrew, etc in the
>>> Latin writing system might be a useful addition.
>>>       
>> This tool exists. I am just now searching for it. I had saw in Ubuntu
>> repositories. There is also toCyrillic a frirefox addon which does the
>> same job.
>>     
>
> The tool is called uconv. It was in the Ubuntu repositories, but is not
> any more for reasons I do not know.
>
> The code though appears to be here:
>
> http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/extra/uconv/
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> If that code is the same what I had a while back on my last laptop or
> what tocyrillic does on Firefox, then it is exactly what you want.
Transliteration is also built into the sword library if icu is enabled. 
I think that Chris keeps it current with each major release of ICU. It's 
use is a feature in BibleCS.