[Python-Dev] Divorcing str and unicode (no more implicitconversions). (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Oct 29 00:21:03 CEST 2005

Neil Hodgson wrote:

This is anecdotal but it appears to me that transliterations are not commonly used apart from learning languages and some minimal help for foreigners such as including transliterated names on railway station name boards.

That would be my guess also. Transliteration is clearly common for Latin-based languages (French, German, Spanish, say), but I doubt non-Latin scripts are that often transliterated (even if conventions exist).

Regards, Martin

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