script conversion

Writing system translation

Script conversion is the process of translating text from one writing system to another—converting Chinese characters to Roman letters, for example, or Cyrillic to Latin script.

This differs from translation, which changes languages; script conversion changes only how the same language is written.

The software handles script conversion for Japanese names on passports.

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linguistic transformation type

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Converting between languages

language translation · word-for-word translation · interpretation · localization · paraphrase

textual modification

script conversionraw text

Unprocessed string data

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