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title: Transforms

Transforms

Transforms describe ways of converting text. Most often these are transliterations, converting one script to another, such as:

Source	Transliteration
キャンパス	kyanpasu
Αλφαβητικός Κατάλογος	Alphabētikós Katálogos
биологический	biologicheskij

For those, the name of the language or script is used.

There are a few others that have special purposes, listed below. Note that whatever translation is used, it should be short (a few words at most).

For the specialized acronyms (marked with *):

• If your language uses Latin letters, you probably want to leave this alone unless there is a well-known name in your language.
• For non-Latin, you should transcribe this into your alphabet, and if the name is not commonly understood, add the English in parentheses, such as “XXX (BGN)” or “XXX (UNGEGN)”.

Code	Description
BGN*	Transliterations according to the US BGN.
UNGEGN*	Transliterations according to the UN Group of Experts on Geographical Names.
Numeric	Numeric conversions.
Tone	Linguistic tone such as used in Chinese.
Accents	Accents, such as in ö or é.
Publishing	Forms of characters more appropriate for publishing. Examples: ‘ or ’ or … rather than generic ASCII characters like: ' or ... (three periods).
Jamo	The name for the units of the Korean alphabet.
Pinyin	The name for the standard romanization (transliteration into Latin letters) for the Chinese language.
Fullwidth	Full-width or “wide” characters, such as Ａ and ォ
Halfwidth	Half-width or “narrow” characters, such as A and ｫ