[Sca-cooks] Translation, transliteration, redaction,etc.???

[Kirrily Robert]

In lists.sca.sca-cooks, you wrote:
>Steve wrote:
>
>> --
>> Transliteration--Ye Olde Inglyshe into modern English
>
>Nope.  One alphabet or other such writing mode into another.

Ah, but old English uses a different alphabet, because it's got all
those thorns and stuff.  Like that Y in "Ye" above, which would appear
in old english as a wossname, and be transliterated as either "y" or
"th" depending on how you do it.  Ditto for the di-thingy that ends up
as "ae", long esses, standardisation of i/j and u/v, and so on, to make
it semi-readable and (my main reason for doing it, when I do) easily
typable without ascending into high ASCII or odd character sets.

K.

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