I attach a patch that improves the transliteration for Greek characters.

Specifically:

"υ" is turned to y instead of u.
"φ" is turned to f instead of ph.
"η" is turned to i instead of e.
"χ" is turned to h instead of kh.
"ξ" is turned to x instead of ks.

These changes are more aligned to the widely used greeklish practices and to the way Google transliterates characters.

CommentFileSizeAuthor
#9 better_greek_transliteration-1215872-9.patch1.65 KBParisLiakos
0001-fixed-greek-character-set-transliteration.patch2.19 KByannisc

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ParisLiakos commented

Hey, i was just about to make a patch for that:)
"η" turning to "e" sucks!

maybe use $variant['el'] instead of modifying $base though?

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yannisc commented

if you do it with $variant['el'] and you haven't specified in your content that it's Greek (a rather common scenario), it will be transliterated with the original (wrong) way.

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ParisLiakos commented

well this way though it may probably break other language translates..
anyway,up to the maintainer

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yannisc commented

the characters changed are only used in Greek (I think).

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simon georges commented
Status: Active » Needs review

Changing status as there is a patch.

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yannisc commented

Thanks! I had neglected to do that.

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amateescu commented
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

According to http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl -> page with code points U+0370 to U+046F, these are all greek characters, so I don't think they will break other languages.

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sun
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commented 
+++ b/data/x03.php
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
+// greek character set transliteration - updated by Yannis Karampelas (yannisc - www.netstudio.gr) - July 2011

To be removed prior to commit.

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ParisLiakos commented
StatusFileSize
new better_greek_transliteration-1215872-9.patch1.65 KB

modified it according to #8

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amateescu commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Commited #9 to 6.x-3.x and 7.x-3.x. Thanks!

http://drupalcode.org/project/transliteration.git/commit/4af0b58
http://drupalcode.org/project/transliteration.git/commit/3a8baa5

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yannisc commented

nice!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.