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The recent errors

Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1)

added by the transliteration template are overly restrictive. Using Unicode character classes to restrict all possible transliteration schemes is mixing unrelated concerns. Many transliteration schemes pre-date Unicode, and the purposes are different. I'm not sure 'transliteration' and 'romanization' are exact synonyms, but 'romanization' seems an informal term. Even though 'romanization' implies a text has been 'romanized' or 'latinized', it doesn't neccesarily follow that every symbol in the string has to be 'roman' or 'latin'. In fact, when one looks at the range of transliteration schemes, it is clear that they do not have an arbitrary limitation to Unicode (or any other) 'Latin'. They have their own requirements depending on the specific transliteration. i.e. many Greek symbols, and even script-Greek for various ancient languages, and the half ring 'modifier' characters for Semitic languages, which are not necessarily modifiers for transliteration purposes e.g. Modifier letter left half ring.

• Shan alphabet still has one error: class="template-letter-box |
  ပႃႊ
  [pa᷈a] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 3: ᷈) (help)
  IPA: /paː˧˦˧/

, watching the page will not alert me to when / if it gets fixed.

• [θaurχ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1: θ) (help) .... Module:Lang/data/is_latn_data
• [θaurχ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1: θ) (help)
• [σa- ςa- sa-] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 5: ς) (help)
• [λτλβ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 4: β) (help)
• [λτλβ] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1: λ) (help)
• ʿ (U+02BF MODIFIER LETTER LEFT HALF RING) (from Template_talk:Transliteration#Please_allow_modifier_letters_widely_used_in_transliteration)
• ʿeyn - ʿ - ʿ
• ʾ
• ξομως Greek script in an "unknown" language
• χαβα / هوا / hava "Weather": The transliteration whitelist breaks Grek Ottoman word for "weather" or any und-Grek that happens to consist solely of exception characters.
• Ἀθῆναι
• [ʻʼʾʿΔαβγδθσφχθьᾱῑ ̔上入去平]
• Pallas Ἀθῆναι vs. Pallas Ἀθῆναι (Grek/Greek)
• Pallas Ἀθῆναι vs. Pallas Ἀθῆναι (Latn/Latin)
• Lang: 上 Script: 上
• Script with lang= المدينة‎‎
• The Chinese character 上 has 3 strokes (modelled after an example from Template:Lang#Undetermined_language)

(削除) The above appears to show the transliteration template taking the 'modifier' name of the symbol in Unicode overly seriously when even the Unicode spec describes them as stand-alone characters for the purposes of transliteration. (削除ここまで)^[1] (the behaviour of the transliteration template is being changed over the course of these tests...)

Requiring every character of a transliterated string to be 'Latin' by some arbitrary judgement is not a real requirement of all transliteration schemes.

p. 167

Wilford, John Noble (1969). We reach the moon; the New York times story of man's greatest adventure . New York: Bantam Books. p. 167. LCCN 74006295.

A Phoenician account survives in a paraphrase of the Greek author Philo of Byblos by Eusebius,^[2] who writes of a Phoenician historian named Sanchuniathon. In this account Death is a son of Elus and counted as a god, as the text says in speaking of Elus/Cronus:

And not long after another of his sons by Rhea, named Muth, having died, he deifies him, and the Phoenicians call him Thanatos ['Death'] and Pluto.

But earlier in a philosophical creation myth Sanchuniathon has referred to great wind which merged with its parents and that connection was called 'Desire' (πόθος)^[3]

From its connection Mot was produced, which some say is mud, and others a putrescence of watery compound; and out of this came every germ of creation, and the generation of the universe. So there were certain animals which had no sensation, and out of them grew intelligent animals, and were called "Zophasemin", that is "observers of heaven"; and they were formed like the shape of an egg. Also Mot burst forth into light, and sun, and moon, and stars, and the great constellations.

The form Mot (Μώτ) ^[4] here is not the same as Muth (Μοὺθ)^[5] which appears later.

Various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as Celtic, Venetic and Messapic) originally used the alphabet. Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, North Picene, and South Picene all derive from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.^{[citation needed ]}

The shapes of the Archaic Etruscan and Neo-Etruscan letters had a few variants, used in different places and/or in different epochs. Shown above are the glyphs from the Unicode Old Italic block, whose appearance will depend on the font used by the browser. These are oriented as they would be in lines written from left to right. Also shown are SVG images of variants shown as they would be written right to left, as in most of the actual inscriptions.^{[11] [12]}

• Eusebius of Caesarea (1903a). Praeparatio Evangelica. Translated by Gifford, E. H. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• Eusebius of Caesarea (1903b). Gifford, Edwin Hamilton (ed.). Evangelicae praeparationis libri XV. Oxonii: E Typographeo academico. OCLC 224082241. OL 24782477M.