Many thanks for all the answers. This helps as lot. I will try with these expressions. The problem is getting more interesting as I have started to look deeper. Somehow intutively I have a feeling that we can make better use of vowel patterns but don't know how. It is guranteed all the vowels in the language will be made from combination of english vowels : aeiou for example mukharjee -> m (non vowel) + u (vowel) + kh (non vowel)+ a (vowel) + rj (non vowel) + ee (vowel) I feel now that if I can use of this vowel-nonvowel pattern, I won't need the combination of all characters and they will take care of them selves. For example "k" will be always follwed by a vowel(combnation of aeiou) and so does the "kh" so by splitting on this will take care of whether it is "k", "kh" or say "khx" So what may be needed is get all character till you find anything till it matches (aeiou) , then get all characters till a non aeiou is found (effectively getting vowel) and so on. Any suggestions

In reply to Re: Regexp and transliteration between languages by killedar
in thread Regexp and transliteration between languages by killedar

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