Transliteration Resource Bundles

translit/root.txt is unusual because a few years ago we pulled the separate transliterator source files all into root.

If we pull them apart again, then

• • Per-bundle string value compression will work much better (because the top 3 "windows" per bundle will cover a larger share of the characters).

  • It would be easy again to pick and choose transliterator files, rather than editing translit/root.txt.

  • It would save duplication from where translit/root.txt includes a number of rules twice in the file:

Arabic-Latin {

file {

resource:process(transliterator) {"Arabic_Latin.txt"}

direction {"FORWARD"}

}

}

Latin-Arabic {

file {

resource:process(transliterator) {"Arabic_Latin.txt"}

direction {"REVERSE"}

}

}