<div dir="ltr">In reply to the following:<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">>Thanks Chris,<br>
<br>>You asked - Has any "expert Chinese reader" actually noted any problem?<br><br>>Last October, I had some discussions with a Chinese friend who had noted<br>>numerous issues in our previous ChiUns module. I'm trying to re-establish<br>
>contact with him. If he doesn't respond soon, I will discuss this topic<br>>with some of my other Chinese friends.<br><br>>In theory at least, there may be issues with mechanical conversion,<br>>particularly if this is done only at the individual codepoint level. The<br>
>need for "one to many" replacements, as well as to go to higher levels than<br>>individual characters could have serious consequences, including some<br>>instances where the meaning is changed.<br><br>
>Further to this, as the module has Strongs and other markup, this may mean<br>>that doing the conversion on the source text (OSIS) will cause the semantic<br>>context to be obscured by the interspersing of XML elements.<br>
<br>>Thanks for the lead about the built in tool in Mac OS X. While I was<br>>Googling, I came across <a href="http://openvanilla.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(103, 117, 58); ">http://openvanilla.org/</a> <a href="http://openvanilla.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(103, 117, 58); ">http://openvanilla.org/</a><br>
<br>>"OpenVanilla is a collection of popular Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese and<br>>symbol input methods and language tools. It is also easy to customize or<br>>create your own input methods with OpenVanilla's flexible design. Available<br>
>on Mac OS X and Windows."<br><br>>Evidently, the Mac OS X Chinese text converter is based on this.<br>><br>>I'm also pursuing some other lines of research (another conversion tool),<br>>though not yhet ready to report on the outcome.<br>
<br>>Finally, what MediaWiki uses for this task is freely available as a PHP<br>>script, though I have not looked further than this page yet.<br>><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_traditional_Chinese" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(103, 117, 58); ">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_traditional_Chinese</a><br>
><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_traditional_Chinese" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(103, 117, 58); ">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_traditional_Chinese</a><br>
<br>>David<br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-family: 'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#202020" face="'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">To which module is this discussion referring, exactly? I would be happy to look up some passages and see if I notice any particular errors with the conversion. However, I do know that any mechanical conversion should be checked over carefully by a native expert. The Chinese use automated tools, but they will also tell you that those tools leave a lot of things that have to be corrected by hand. It is not a simple one-to-one conversion, since sometimes more than one character was simplified to the same simplified character. The conversion from simplified to complex is always a touch more problematic, but the other direction also frequently leaves problems.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#202020" face="'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#202020" face="'Droid Sans', arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Matthew</span></font></div>
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