transforming a hebrew word into english characters

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I need a java open source code that transforms a hebrew string into a string with english characters for example : transform the word "שלום" into "shalom"

Tag it with Java, so that the question reaches out to more ppl — nawfal, Oct 19 '12 at 06:44
Hebrew allows one letter to pronounce in several ways (w/o vowels) so this is really hard to implement. — Mordechai, Oct 19 '12 at 06:49

specialscope · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-19T07:12:47.830

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You can use ICU transliterator. http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/general#TOC-Script-Transliteration

If that doesnt meet your need look around for Hebrew transliterator you will definitely find one.

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answered Oct 19 '12 at 06:46

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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Another way you could go is to use a Unicode transliterated font, but that would only work for display, that wouln't help if you really needed the "English", or "IPA" equivalent.

You could check out a transliteration library such as this. CHEERS

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answered Dec 04 '12 at 18:06

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transforming a hebrew word into english characters

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