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  1. Preface
  2. Part 1: On-Prem Operations
  3. Part 2: Parameter and Element Reference
  4. Appendix A: Geocode Countries
  5. Appendix B: Reverse Geocoding Coverage
  6. Appendix C: Certified Mode Values

On-Premises Developer Guide

On-Premises Developer Guide

Transliteration

Transliteration

Transliteration converts data between non-Roman characters and Latin characters. Transliteration can also replace diacritical and extended characters with plain text equivalents.
Transliteration helps nonnative speakers find an approximate pronunciation of a word based on the pronunciation rules of their own language. Transliterations of ISO character sets use invertible mapping so that the transliteration can be reversed without any information loss. However, for other character sets, such as BGN, transliteration is not reversible.
Informatica Address Verification can transliterate to and from the following writing systems:
  • Chinese Pinyin (Mandarin, Cantonese)
  • Cyrillic (BGN/PCGN 1947, ISO 9 – 1995)
    You can perform Cyrillic transliteration for Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Russia, and Ukraine.
  • Greek (BGN/PCGN 1962, ISO 843 – 1997)
  • Hebrew
  • Japanese Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji
Transliteration goes beyond character set mapping, which is a mapping between different numeric representations of a character. A language such as Japanese, with Katakana, Hiragana, and Kanji characters, has sounds with no direct representation in the English language. However, each Japanese character has an associated sound that can be approximated phonetically in Latin characters.
The following table shows transliteration of sample characters from different character sets:
Source Character Set
Input
Destination Character Set
Output
Latin
Ä
ASCII
AE
Latin
ĝ
ASCII
g
Kanji (Japanese)
Latin
shi
Cyrillic
Ж
Latin
ZH

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