[Enhancement] Integrate translit into pages that prefer input with cyrillic characters
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This is a request for enhancement for Launchpad Answers (possibly other modules as well). Since this particular area of Launchpad is fairly language sensitive, it would be nice to have the functionality present on http://
I have contacted the developer of translit.ru and got a preliminary confirmation that he is willing to allow us to use his code as long as a link back to his website (translit.ru) is somewhere reasonably prominent on the pages using his code.
Some background information:
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* Technical: Translit is a client-side technology (implemented in JavaScript) which allows one to use Latin keyboard layouts to generate Cyrillic characters. The nice thing about this specific implementation is that the conversion of Latin characters to Cyrillic characters happens on the fly, so in a sense this implementation is basically WYSIWYG, whereas many others require you to enter the text using latin characters and then click a button which parses the input and replaces is with Cyrillic characters. This is fairly frustrating, because even experienced users sometimes make mistakes, forcing the user to constantly proof-read his/her own work.
* More background information on Translit is available on Wikipedia: http://
Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in launchpad-answers: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Why isn't Translit implemented as an operating system IME? Then it would for every Web site, not just the ones that happen to use the script.