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Harvard-Kyoto - database for copy and paste



Sakhicharan - Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:40:32 +0530
I was wondering if anyone has constructed a database of the most commonly used Sanskrit/Bengali words converted into Harvard-Kyoto to easily copy & paste into one's posts? I would like to use this standard, however sometimes it just becomes too much of an effort to use with any consistency.

I would imagine that this has been covered before, but I don't know where... smile.gif
ananga - Wed, 07 Sep 2005 13:27:04 +0530
Why not have it as a collaborative online database as it will surely be a "work in progress" for some time. Something like a wiki would be the right kind of model. Why not have unicode for the original script and translations too, like an online "bhaktalogical" wink.gif dictionary.

QUOTE(Sakhicharan @ Sep 6 2005, 11:10 PM)
I was wondering if anyone has constructed a database of the most commonly used Sanskrit/Bengali words converted into Harvard-Kyoto to easily copy & paste into one's posts? I would like to use this standard, however sometimes it just becomes too much of an effort to use with any consistency.

I would imagine that this has been covered before, but I don't know where... smile.gif


Madhava - Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:47:34 +0530
Integrating a small common words database into the forum isn't a big deal. Opening in a popup like the diacritic convertor.

Start a topic with all the words in the world you would have included, I'll put together the plug-in as soon as there's enough to work with.
Gaurasundara - Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:53:06 +0530
On the other hand, I didn't think that typing in HK was that much of a problem. It seems easy once you get used to it. For me it seems more time-consuiming to look up words in said database and then cut'n'paste them. Can I ask what are the specific problems in typing in HK, Sakhicaranji and others? Just out of curiosity.
Madhava - Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:35:39 +0530
Remembering all the short and long vowels, and the different N's? biggrin.gif

However learning to do that makes all the difference in grasping the language, eventually.