Re: QaMoose

["Chahine M. Hamila" <mch at chaham dot com>]

It might be easier to use the unofficial conventions teens use...
Numbers are okay, as long as there's no ambiguity about what we mean.
Tashkeel is:
a for fat7a
o for Damma
i for kasra
aa for fat7a+alef
oo for Damma+waw
ee for kasra+ya2...
There are zillion ways to transcript that have no ambiguity. Sometimes though, in the most common ones we might encounter some.
for example, kaf followed heh might be confused with khaf. In that case a dash will seperate both letters...
My two cents, all in all, I think it's up to the volunteer who does the actual work, as long as it is clear.

Jihad Daoud a *crit :

> Hi,
> I would avoid the use of numbers and any other non-alphabetic characters (26 English letters). We do however need a page with the Arabic letters and their corresponding English letters. Some are obvious other are not, some are already established and well used that changing them would not make sense.
> We have, of course, to keep in mind using good Arabic pronunciation with no dialect specific interference.
>
> Do we need to distinguish before the spelling and pronunciation?
> What to do with the diacritics (tshkil)? So we translate that into  a, o, i, ... or do we omit them? Kind of hard to omit them because two words with the same letters can mean different things when the diacritic changes! But we might need a way to distinguish a diacritic from a letter. For instance by adding a dot after the letter that represent a diacritic (tshkil is written as ta.shkil, here "a" is a diacritic).
>
> I don't have the whole system clear in my mind yet, but those thoughts might lead somewhere.
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