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Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

From:J Matthew Pearson <pearson@...>
Date:Monday, January 29, 2001, 18:55
Patrick Dunn wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John Cowan wrote: > > > > Also the fact that the orthography can muck things up so easily > > > is disappointing (though not surprising). > > > > An orthography is a standard part of a written language. When > > we want to identify text in English, we expect it to be written > > using English orthography, not some random orthography. > > The problem is, of course, transliteration. As far as I know, there are > still two or three different ways to transliterate Hebrew into the Roman > alphabet (although maybe one's standard by now -- all the Hebrew I know I > learned from books published in the 50s).
There's also the problem of languages which lack a standardised orthography altogether, because they're rarely if ever written down. Matt.