Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

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Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Bubulus » 2017-12-20, 23:11

Would anyone want to have an X-SAMPA to IPA converter easily available in posts again?

What about any other such converters? We used to have one so that you could convert ASCII characters (or certain combinations of them) into Arabic and other scripts too. For example, you could type 3rby, select it, press a button and then get عربي.

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-12-22, 7:06

Honestly, that converter used to annoy me so much. Who even uses X-SAMPA? :?

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Dormouse559 » 2017-12-22, 7:21

Um, I do! I find it much more fluid to type out a transcription in X-SAMPA then convert it to IPA.
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Luís » 2017-12-22, 8:58

Unfortunately that's one of the features that got lost in the forum migration. It was sort of replaced by the IPA virtual keyboard.

It might be reimplemented though (I don't understand if you're volunteering or just asking :P)
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby kevin » 2017-12-22, 13:13

Oh, we have an IPA virtual keyboard in the forum? Nice, I never noticed this. :)

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby księżycowy » 2017-12-22, 13:32

Speaking of the virtual keyboards, is there a way to add any thing to them?

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Luís » 2017-12-22, 13:44

kevin wrote:Oh, we have an IPA virtual keyboard in the forum? Nice, I never noticed this. :)


Not just IPA. There's also Cyrillic, Greek and Latin (with all sorts of diacritics and special characters).

księżycowy wrote:Speaking of the virtual keyboards, is there a way to add any thing to them?


I suppose so. IIRC, the virtual keyboards were developed by TheStrayCat
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby księżycowy » 2017-12-22, 13:55

I was just thinking it would be nice to have the x with a circumflex over it for typing Aleut. :P

I mean, we have g circumflex.

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Bubulus » 2017-12-22, 15:29

vijayjohn wrote:Honestly, that converter used to annoy me so much. Who even uses X-SAMPA? :?

Me. I use Aszev's X-SAMPA converter on aveneca.com for all my IPA needs, but I was thinking others here could find such a converter and other converters useful?
Luís wrote:Unfortunately that's one of the features that got lost in the forum migration. It was sort of replaced by the IPA virtual keyboard.

It might be reimplemented though (I don't understand if you're volunteering or just asking :P)

I'm volunteering to reimplement it.
księżycowy wrote:I was just thinking it would be nice to have the x with a circumflex over it for typing Aleut. :P

I mean, we have g circumflex.

I'll find out how to add it.
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby księżycowy » 2017-12-22, 15:33

Thanks, Ser! :D

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby księżycowy » 2017-12-22, 18:43

It would be balls to have a Hebrew and Arabic virtual keyboard (or text converter) as well. With vowel points, of course. (And yes, I know an Arabic converter was already suggested)

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby vijayjohn » 2017-12-22, 19:41

Dormouse559 wrote:Um, I do! I find it much more fluid to type out a transcription in X-SAMPA then convert it to IPA.

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vijayjohn wrote:Honestly, that converter used to annoy me so much. Who even uses X-SAMPA? :?

Me. I use Aszev's X-SAMPA converter on aveneca.com for all my IPA needs, but I was thinking others here could find such a converter and other converters useful?

So what appeals to y'all about X-SAMPA? Just the fact that it uses ASCII characters or what?

I just use the keyboard or (on a certain other forum) this.

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Bubulus » 2017-12-22, 19:47

vijayjohn wrote:So what appeals to y'all about X-SAMPA? Just the fact that it uses ASCII characters or what?

I just use the keyboard or (on a certain other forum) this.

I learned X-SAMPA back in the day when it was necessary to use it (2006, when I started going on a language forum), because lots of people did not have Unicode coverage of IPA characters on their computer, and, having overcome the learning curve, it's just faster / more efficient to use than a virtual keyboard.

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Luís » 2017-12-22, 21:26

księżycowy wrote:It would be balls to have a Hebrew and Arabic virtual keyboard (or text converter) as well. With vowel points, of course. (And yes, I know an Arabic converter was already suggested)


Have you tried the Hebrew qwerty layout? It's really easy to use and even the vowel points are intuitive to type.
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Dormouse559 » 2017-12-22, 21:29

vijayjohn wrote:So what appeals to y'all about X-SAMPA? Just the fact that it uses ASCII characters or what?
Exactly. :) As I said, fluid. No need to search for and click the character I need on the screen, or revert to flip-phone style character selection. I just type and let the converter make it pretty.
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby księżycowy » 2017-12-22, 21:34

Luís wrote:Have you tried the Hebrew qwerty layout? It's really easy to use and even the vowel points are intuitive to type.

Which layout if that? I just have "Hebrew" and "Hebrew (Standard)" on my machine natively. (Win 10)

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Luís » 2017-12-22, 21:41

księżycowy wrote:
Luís wrote:Have you tried the Hebrew qwerty layout? It's really easy to use and even the vowel points are intuitive to type.

Which layout if that? I just have "Hebrew" and "Hebrew (Standard)" on my machine natively. (Win 10)


Maybe it's only available for Mac users... :? It's called Hebrew (qwerty).

Anyway, I find it awesome because I don't need to relearn where all the letters are. For instance:

ql - קל
anglit - אנגלית
mdbr - מדבר
shift + a = ָ
shift + e = ֵ

and so on.

Maybe there's a way to install it for Windows users, I don't know.

Edit: apparently, there isn't.
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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby księżycowy » 2017-12-22, 21:54

So it's very similar to the Google Input keyboard for Hebrew. :P

I also have a Biblical Hebrew keyboard installed, so it's not like I couldn't use those. But I'm not always on my computer, so....

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Re: Text converters in posts (X-SAMPA and others)

Postby Luís » 2017-12-22, 22:07

księżycowy wrote:I was just thinking it would be nice to have the x with a circumflex over it for typing Aleut. :P

I mean, we have g circumflex.


X̂ x̂

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