Transliteration glyphs

1

Is there a predefined Set of glyphs for transliteration? I would like to add them to my fonts but don’t which one to add.
Glyphs like: ʿ ʾ ā ḍ ḥ ī ṣ ṭ ū ẓ

Thanks!

2

What are you trying to transliterate? There are hundreds of languages that need different glyphs when transliterated.

3

Plus, for most scripts, there are multiple transliteration standards, e.g., Cyrillic to Latin, which has different standards for each language, the Wikipedia article for Romanized Russian lists a dozen standards.

Best strategy is probably to look which transliteration standards there are for the languages you want to cover, and collect the glyphs you need into a list filter.

4

I see, so if we narrow it down to transliteration of Arabic, is there a fixed set of glyphs? Or does it also depend on different standards?

5

These sites have good information on needed glyphs for transliteration:
http://www.geonames.de/
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html (American Library Association/Library of Congress)

6

Thanks! These are great!