Not working for Thai

[stephankn]

Completely broken for Thai.

Try เชียงใหม่

Should​ be Chiang Mai. Official scheme for Thai is RTGS.

Your transliteration looks as broken as ICU.

[dzcpy]

You are right, Thai seems not supported. I'll add this in caveats section. Meanwhile, do you know any open source script which can transliterate Thai into Latin?

[stephankn]

Sorry, don't know anything better. I search from time for something RTGS capable. This is how I came across yours, just to discover it being broken as well.
If someone finds open source capable of transliteration with RTGS I would be happy to learn about it, too.

[dzcpy]

@stephankn I found one, it's not accurate but kind of working: https://github.com/comdevx/thai2karaoke
Here is the test code:

const { thai2karaoke: thai } = require('thai2karaoke')();
const res = {
  status() {
    return this;
  },
  json(res) {
    console.log(res.data);
  }
}
let result = thai({ body: { text: 'เชียงใหม่' } },  res);
console.log(result);

Below are some links about the rules to transliterate Thai using RTGS:
http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/~ling/tts/principles_eng.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Thai_General_System_of_Transcription

I'm not quite familiar with Thai, if any one can help coding the conversion rules, I can merge it into this module.
Here is a place where you can test whether the result is correct:
http://www.thai-language.com/?nav=dictionary&anyxlit=1

[arturtr]

Another service for testing transliteration
https://www.thai2english.com/transliteration

[stephankn]

Meanwhile I found this one to work quite well for Thai: https://pypi.org/project/tltk/