"David" == David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> writes:
David> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Karl Eichwalder David> <ke@gnu.franken.de> wrote: >> Robert Cicconetti <grythumn@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Not really. The OED uses a predecessor of IPA with some >>> oddball symbols.. at the least I have to come up with a table >>> for those or they'll be all over the place. I started one, >>> need to finish it. >> You could consider processing it at dp-canada or dp-int--both >> are UTF-8 enabled. David> I have two problems with that. One, I'm not sure all the David> symbols are in Unicode. This could be managed with replacements of the few (are they few?) missing characters. Two, just making Unicode available David> doesn't overcome the problems that these characters are not David> on any physical keyboards and only the most esoteric David> software keyboards. This could be managed with a character picker, like the greek and hieroglyph popups in the proofing interface. Or some of the tools in some of Don's project comments. Even with Unicode available, if it were David> pure IPA, I'd go with SAMPA. SAMPA might be OK for publcation, and probably for entering too, but for checking (rounds after the first) it requires to know the correspondence OED/SAMPA. Impossible, except for experts. One might however easily build converters from SAMPA and IPA to OED using the conversion software that is running at DP-EU (convert button in the standard interface). Undocumented, but I know it, and I have both the software and part at least of the conversion tables, and can build in minutes any further table needed. Probably it is something that might be experimented at DP-EU: apparently Nikola is maintaining the converter, and adding a table to it is straightforward (it is an ASCII table). If you want, I can start there a project with a few pages. There is however another worse problem: I am not sure that the OED is free from copyright in Canada or Serbia. Carlo