https://aflat.org/taxonomy/term/245/0 en https://aflat.org/node/329 <!--paging_filter--><div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-label">URL:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://lingala.svn.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">https://lingala.svn.sourceforge.net/</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-description"> <div class="field-label">Description:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <!--paging_filter--><p>The problem with using web texts for many languages is that many people do not have the ability to enter diacritics or characters from extended<br /> character sets from their keyboard, and so they simply leave them off (and so Lingala "likɔngá" becomes "likonga"), or use incorrect diacritics<br /> (e.g. using acute/grave in place of the macron in Hawaiian, Maori, etc.). Information is usually lost in this conversion, and indeed most languages<br /> that use diacritics have many pairs of words that differ only in diacritical marks; these distinctions are lost when texts are written in plain ASCII.<br /> The aim of charlifter is to undo this lossy conversion, and "lift" the text back to its proper form.</p> </div> </div> </div> https://aflat.org/node/329#comments Central Africa Tool / Application diacritic correction Lingála Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:45:48 +0000 Guy 329 at https://aflat.org