Latin Belarusian

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Ihar,

I have heard that you are setting up a translation team for Belarusian with
Latin script. I also see in [1] that there is a standard way to transliterate
Belarusian text from Cyrillic to Latin script.

Is it true that such a transliteration can be done automatically? If yes,
then we can implement this transliteration as a filter for the 'msgfilter'
program. For Serbian, such a conversion is indeed possible to do automatically,
and it's implemented in GNU gettext already:

    $ recode-sr-latin --help
    Usage: recode-sr-latin [OPTION]

    Recode Serbian text from Cyrillic to Latin script.
    The input text is read from standard input.  The converted text is output to
    standard output.

    Informative output:
      -h, --help                  display this help and exit
      -V, --version               output version information and exit

    Report bugs to <address@hidden>.

    $ echo 'Данило Шеган' | recode-sr-latin
    Danilo Šegan

msgfilter can use this program to recode an entire PO file at once.

Do you think such a converter would be possible and useful for Belarusian
as well?

Bruno


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Belarusian