Class Greek.Ancient.AlaLc

The ALA-LC (American Library Association and Library of Congress) Greek romanization system.
Has two separate modes - one for very old Greek (Attic numerals, obelistic full-stops (⁚)), and one for more recent old Greek (Greek numerals, modern-ish punctuation). If you don't know the difference, use the more recent version.
For more information, visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek
and
https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/greek.pdf

Inheritance
System.Object
Greek.Ancient.AlaLc
Namespace: Romanization
Assembly: Romanization.NET.dll
Syntax
public sealed class AlaLc : object, IMultiInOutCultureSystem, IMultiInCultureSystem, IMultiOutCultureSystem, IRomanizationSystem
Remarks

Attic numeral support is somewhat contrived. Check out ProcessNumeralsInText(String, Func<NumeralValue<Greek.Ancient.Units>, String>) for more information.

Constructors

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AlaLc(OutputNumeralType, Boolean)

Instantiates a copy of the system to process romanizations.

Declaration
public AlaLc(OutputNumeralType outputNumeralType = OutputNumeralType.Roman, bool veryOld = false)
Parameters
Type Name Description
OutputNumeralType outputNumeralType

What kind of numeral to romanize to.
Greek numerals are traditionally romanized to Roman numerals, except for when in official/government documents.
System.Boolean veryOld

Whether or not this system should parse as if the text is very old. In very old Greek, a different punctuation system was used and Attic numerals were used instead.

Fields

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OutputNumeralType

Declaration
public readonly OutputNumeralType OutputNumeralType
Field Value
Type Description
OutputNumeralType
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VeryOld

Whether or not this system should parse as if the text is very old. In very old Greek, a different punctuation system was used and Attic numerals were used instead of newer Greek numerals.
While the use of this should largely depend on the text you intend to use it with, a decent rule-of-thumb is that if Attic numerals are a possibility, this should be true.

Declaration
public readonly bool VeryOld
Field Value
Type Description
System.Boolean

Properties

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DefaultCulture

The default culture this system will go with for romanization if Process(String) is used.

Declaration
public CultureInfo DefaultCulture { get; }
Property Value
Type Description
CultureInfo
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Type

The type of the system - this is an important consideration depending on the purpose of romanizing the text.
For more information, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization#Methods

Declaration
public SystemType Type { get; }
Property Value
Type Description
SystemType

Methods

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Process(String)

Performs ALA-LC Greek romanization on the given text.

Declaration
public string Process(string text)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String text

The text to romanize.
Returns
Type Description
System.String

A romanized version of the text, leaving unrecognized characters untouched.
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Process(String, CultureInfo)

Performs ALA-LC Greek romanization on the given text.
Supports providing a specific nativeCulture to process with, as long as the country code is el.

Declaration
public string Process(string text, CultureInfo nativeCulture)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String text

The text to romanize.
CultureInfo nativeCulture

The culture to romanize from.
Returns
Type Description
System.String

A romanized version of the text, leaving unrecognized characters untouched.
Exceptions
Type Condition
IrrelevantCultureException

nativeCulture is irrelevant to the language/region.
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Process(String, CultureInfo, CultureInfo)

Performs ALA-LC Greek romanization on the given text.
Supports providing a specific nativeCulture (as long as the country code is el) to romanize from, and a romanizedCulture to romanize to.

Declaration
public string Process(string text, CultureInfo nativeCulture, CultureInfo romanizedCulture)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String text

The text to romanize.
CultureInfo nativeCulture

The culture to romanize from.
CultureInfo romanizedCulture

The culture to romanize to.
Returns
Type Description
System.String

A romanized version of the text, leaving unrecognized characters untouched.
Exceptions
Type Condition
IrrelevantCultureException

nativeCulture is irrelevant to the language/region.
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ProcessToCulture(String, CultureInfo)

Performs ALA-LC Greek romanization on the given text.

Declaration
public string ProcessToCulture(string text, CultureInfo romanizedCulture)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.String text

The text to romanize.
CultureInfo romanizedCulture

The culture to romanize to.
Returns
Type Description
System.String

A romanized version of the text, leaving unrecognized characters untouched.

Implements