Ancient Language Widget

What?

  • There are potentially a number of places in the Pleiades Plone implementation wherein users will need to be able to enter text in an ancient language + script combination (i.e., in a language and script not native to the user or their broswer localization).
  • User expectations, experience and supporting technological capabilities will vary
    • Some users will have Unicode-capable keyboards, which they will prefer to use in order to enter such data
    • Some users will prefer to enter data in a standard ASCII-like transliteration scheme, and expect the result to be automagically converted to Unicode
    • Some users will have alternate encoding keyboards (or existing text in other encodings) that they will want to be able to type or paste and have the result automagically converted to Unicode

Questions?

  • How many of the above stories will we actually support?
  • Could development of one or more of these widgets be farmed out to, e.g., a software engineering class project?

Info

A number of implementations of capabilities approximating these already exist. Can we borrow/reuse/port code, regular expressions or something?