Transliteration Cyrillic -> English or English -> Cyri

[Borisw37]

Is it possible to write a script for MediaMonkey to automatically transliterate artist and title fields of selected files?
Transliteration is used to write russian words using english letters (for PC that do not have Cyrillic support or keyboard)
The rules of translitteration are very simple. Basically every russian letter has an equivalent English letter (or combination of letters)

http://www.translit.ru/

Thank you,

Boris.

[Bex]

Perhaps kanski is the man for this request?

[mikeclarkusa]

Has anyone written such a script yet? I used this site to do a manual conversion: http://newyork.mashke.org/Conv/
The underlying code seems to be available there, so perhaps someone could easily use it to write the MM script. Vozmozhno?
Thanks, - mike

[ZvezdanD]

The RegExp Find & Replace script has predefined preset "Convert Serbian Latin to Serbian Cyrillic". If you want, I could extend it to support additional Russian Cyrillic characters.

[mikeclarkusa]

I would be grateful if you would. Thanks in advance. If you do it, can you notify me when it's done? Thanks, - mike

[ZvezdanD]

You should install the mentioned script, open the RegExp Find & Replace dialog box, click on the New button, enter following settings and click on the Save button.

Preset: Convert Latin to Russian Cyrillic
Find what:

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(a)|(b)|(v)|(g)|(d)|(e)|(jo|yo)|(zh)|(z)|(i)|(je)|(ju|yu)|(ja|ya)|(j)|(k)|(l)|(m)|(n)|(o)|(p)|(r)|(shch|w)|(sh)|(s)|(t)|(u)|(f)|(h)|(ch)|(c)|(y)

Into: Title (or whatever field you want to transliterate)
Regular expression 1: checked
Replace with:

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MapArray(Array("$1", &H430, "$2", &H431, "$3", &H432, "$4", &H433,  "$5", &H434, "$6", &H435, "$7", &H451, "$8", &H436, "$9", &H437, "$10", &H438, "$11", &H44D, "$12", &H44E, "$13", &H44F, "$14", &H439, "$15", &H43A, "$16", &H43B, "$17", &H43C, "$18", &H43D, "$19", &H43E, "$20", &H43F, "$21", &H440, "$22", &H449, "$23", &H448, "$24", &H441, "$25", &H442, "$26", &H443, "$27", &H444, "$28", &H445, "$29", &H447, "$30", &H446, "$31", &H44B))

VBScript expression: checked

The current version of the script has not very efficient MapArray custom function which is used for such sort of modifications. The next version will have more user-friendlly function and probably much faster than MapArray. In meantime, you could try previous settings and please tell me if it works as it should. I have some doubt about characters "Ъ" and "Ь" and I didn't include them into transliteration - there are too many different "standards" for this (ISO 9, GOST 7.79, GOST 16876-71, ...) and I didn't know which to use.

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