transliteration in Python

[Erik Max Francis]

Giorgi Lekishvili wrote:

> Can someone smarter than me explain the common syntax of
> transliteration
> of one encoding to another?
> 
> Suppose we have string sl="shchi" and want to recode it in "KOIR-8".
> How
> can this be achieved?

Note that this sort of transliteration is generally called romanization.

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