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# Enable Transliteration for Individual Languages

In cases where you need a particular transliteration, you can set `GenericTransliteration` to `False` and use the per-language transliteration schemes.

To turn transliteration on or off for an individual language

- In the `[MyLanguage]` individual language configuration sections, set the `Transliteration` parameter to `True` or `False`.

When you set `GenericTransliteration` to `False`, the Content component always performs transliteration for the languages in the following table, even if you also set `Transliteration` to `False`.

Language | Transliteration
--- | ---
Japanese | Half width katakana to full width katakana Full width 0–9, A–Z, a–z to single byte 0–9, A–Z, a–z
Chinese | Full width 0–9, A–Z, a–z to single byte 0–9, A–Z, a–z
Greek | Accented Greek characters to non-accented characters
Spanish | Accented vowels áéíóúü to non-accented vowels
Portuguese | Accented vowels àáâãçéêíòóôõúü to non-accented vowels
Russian | Some removal of characters
Arabic Persian Sindhi Urdu Malay Malayalam Pushto | Arabic character normalization

Transliteration is optional for the language groups in the following table.

Language group | Transliteration
--- | ---
Western European | àáâãä=a å=aa ç=c èéêë=e ìíîï=i òóôõö=o ø=oe ùúûü=u œ(oe)=oe æ=ae ß=ss ñ=nh ý=y ð=d þ=th
German | Same as Western European apart from: ä=ae ö=oe ü=ue
Scandinavian | Same as Western European apart from: ä=ae ö=oe ü=ue
Catalan | Same as Western European apart from: ç=sz
Cyrillic | All characters mapped to A–Z Transliteration scheme uses British Standard 2979:1958
South Slavic | For transliteration scheme, refer to A Handbook of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian by Brown & Alt.

The following table describes the languages that each of these language groups contain.

Western European | Czech Dutch English French Hungarian | Italian Maori Mirandese Polish Portuguese | Romanian Slovakian Spanish Turkish
German | German |  |
Scandinavian | Danish Finnish Icelandic | Norwegian Swedish |
Catalan | Catalan |  |
Cyrillic | Russian Tajik |  |
South Slavic | Bosnian Serbian Croatian |  |

For all other languages, transliteration does not apply, except for hyphen normalization.

For full details of the transliteration of different characters in different transliteration modes, refer to Knowledge Discovery Expert.

Related Topics

- Index Nonalphanumeric Characters

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Topic Title: Enable Transliteration for Individual Languages