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Hi Karthizen,

Its pretty simple to transliterate Hindi to English. For each combination of Hindi letter, you need to create a Hashmap with respective combination of English letters. And then you need to create a function which will read the complete Hindi text and refer to the hashmap and then transliterate one letter at a time.

Can you please elaborate which encoding you are using for the Hindi text?

Hi Karthizen,

Can you please post me some Hindi text that you want to convert to English. This will make me understand which encoding you will be using for Hindi

Hi Karthizen,

The posted text is in Unicode (UTF-8) encoding. The text can be converted using Umar online converter at https://higopi.com/ucedit/Multi.html as follows.

sabhI manuS​yO\-m kO gaurava aura adhikArO\-m kE mAmalE mE\-m jan​majAta s​vatan​t​ratA p​rAp​ta hai। un​hE\-m bud​dhi aura an​tarAt​mA kI dEna p​rAp​ta hai aura paras​para un​hE\-m bhAIcArE kE bhAva sE bar​tAva karanA cAhiyE।

As I explained in my previous reply, you need to create a hash map to hold English letters as keys and equivalent Hindi letters as values in that hash map.

After creating the above hash map, you need to wrote a function to read the Hindi text typed and then substitute with the value from the above hash map.

For example in JavaScript, please look in to the following files:

https://higopi.com/script/ucedit/english.js
https://higopi.com/script/ucedit/hindi.js
https://higopi.com/script/ucedit/common.js

Hi Gopi,

I am still working on the task of transliterating hindi to english. I am matching every hindi character to a English character like i have mentioned below,

('अ', "A");
('आ', "Aa");
('इ', "I");
('ई', "Ee");

I have used the site http://www.xs4all.nl/~wjsn/hindi.htm  as reference,  however i feel this is not up to the mark.  Where can I find the Hindi - English transliteration character(mapping) set or we need to create it on our own?

Regards,
karthik

Hi Gopi,

As you suggested, I did create a transliteration map like the following with the help of http://www.xs4all.nl/~wjsn/hindi.htm,

            _transDic.Add('अ', "A");
            _transDic.Add('आ', "Aa");
            _transDic.Add('इ', "I");
            _transDic.Add('ई', "Ee");
            _transDic.Add('उ', "U");
            _transDic.Add('ऊ', "Oo");
            _transDic.Add('ऋ', "Ri");
            _transDic.Add('ऌ', "LI");
            _transDic.Add('ऍ', "EI");
            _transDic.Add('ऎ', "Ell");
            _transDic.Add('ए', "E");
            _transDic.Add('ऐ', "Ey");
            _transDic.Add('ऑ', "OI");
            _transDic.Add('ऒ', "OII");
            _transDic.Add('ओ', "O");
            _transDic.Add('औ', "Ou");
            _transDic.Add('क', "K");
            _transDic.Add('ख', "Kh");
            _transDic.Add('ग', "G");
            _transDic.Add('घ', "Gh");
            _transDic.Add('ङ', "N'");
            _transDic.Add('च', "Ch");
            _transDic.Add('छ', "Chh");
            _transDic.Add('ज', "J");
            _transDic.Add('झ', "Jh");
            _transDic.Add('ञ', "N'");
            _transDic.Add('ट', "T");
            _transDic.Add('ठ', "Th");
            _transDic.Add('ड', "D");
            _transDic.Add('ढ', "Dh");
            _transDic.Add('ण', "N'");
            _transDic.Add('त', "T'");
            _transDic.Add('थ', "T'h");
            _transDic.Add('द', "Th");
            _transDic.Add('ध', "Thh");
            _transDic.Add('न', "N");
            _transDic.Add('ऩ', "NI");
            _transDic.Add('प', "P");
            _transDic.Add('फ', "F");
            _transDic.Add('ब', "B");
            _transDic.Add('भ', "Bh");
            _transDic.Add('म', "M");
            _transDic.Add('य', "Y");
            _transDic.Add('र', "R");
            _transDic.Add('ऱ', "RI");
            _transDic.Add('ल', "L");
            _transDic.Add('ळ', "LI");
            _transDic.Add('ऴ', "LII");
            _transDic.Add('व', "V");
            _transDic.Add('श', "Sh");
            _transDic.Add('ष', "Shh");
            _transDic.Add('स', "S");
            _transDic.Add('ह', "H");
            _transDic.Add('ॐ', "Oms");
            _transDic.Add('ख़', "Khl");
            _transDic.Add('ग़', "Ghl");
            _transDic.Add('ज़', "Z");
            _transDic.Add('ड़', "ugDh");
            _transDic.Add('ढ़', "ugDhh");
            _transDic.Add('फ़', "FI");
            _transDic.Add('य़', "YI");
            _transDic.Add('ॠ', "Ri");
            _transDic.Add('ॡ', "LII");

However, when I copy & pasted the following hindi text

बीबीसी संवाददाता के अनुसार यह दूसरा प्रस्ताव सुरक्षा परिषद के सदस्यों को पिछला प्रस्ताव पारित किए जाने के समय उनके द्वारा उठाई ज़िम्मेदारी की याद भी

it returns

BीBीSी SंVाThThाT'ा Kे ANुSाR YH ThूSRा P्RS्T'ाV SुRK्Shhा PRिShhTh Kे SThS्Yों Kो PिChhLा P्RS्T'ाV PाRिT' KिE JाNे Kे SMY UNKे Th्VाRा UThाEe J़िM्MेThाRी Kी YाTh Bhी

which it should not,

Where did I go wrong?

Please help....

Thanks,
Karthikeyan

Last edited by karthizen (07-Sep-2009,Mon 08:08:19)

Hi Gopi,

Thanks a lot for your reply.  Let me start my search to find out the vowel suffices.

Hi Shashidhar,

In case if you are implementing it in a web page, it can be readily available for Kannada by following the instructions at https://higopi.com/ucedit/Reuse.html?kannada

If you are creating it for a standalone application like Karthizen explained in this thread,The process and logic is pretty much same. Only the map is different for Kannada, Please refer http://www.unicodemap.org/range/22/Kannada/ for complete code point list for Kannada.

Let me know if you have any further clarifications.

is there any software that is much better to convert any language to another ?

Thanks gopi i also learned a lot but if i want to translate a documents into multi national languages then what type of software you can suggest me ?

I also acted upon your suggestion and i found it better and downloaded Google toolbar and used translator.Thanks.