Since not a lot of modern Taiwanese people appreciate the conversion to the PRC’s Hanyu Pinyin, and prior to Taiwan’s adoption of HYPY, many place names in Taiwan used Wade-Giles but w/o apostrophe marks to distinguish between voiced/unvoiced consonants (such as pairs ji/qi and zhi/chi as rendered in HYPY), and hyphens to separate each syllable by character (e.g. T ’ a i - c h u n g; C h u n g - s h a n), let me ask you all if you would be interested in seeing such place names as being romanized in Jyutping Cantonese (which is the common method of romanization for Cantonese transliterations)?
For example:
T a i c h u n g (tai2 zhong1 HYPY; tai2 j h o n g1 TYPY; toi4 zung1 Jyutping) in Cantonese will become “Toi-zung” (Cantonese Yale: T o ì h -j ū n g)
K u t i n g (gu3 ting2 HYPY and TYPY; gu2 ting4 Jyutping) will have the same spelling in Jyutping as in HYPY and TYPY (but in Cantonese Yale will be written, if with tone marks, as “Gú-tìhng”)
C h u n g s h a n (zhong1 shan1 HYPY; j h o n g1 shan1 TYPY; zung1 saan1 Jyutping) becomes “Zung-saan” (Cantonese Yale: J ū n g - s ā a n)
C h i c h a n g (qi1 zhang1 HYPY; cat1 zoeng1 Jyutping) becomes “Cat-zoeng” (Cantonese Yale: Chāt-jēung)
K u n g k u a n (gong1 guan3 HYPY; gung1 gwaan2 Jyutping) = G u n g - g w a a n (Cantonese Yale: G ū n g - g w á a n)
Taibei Chezhan (tai2 bei3 che1 zhan4 HYPY; tai2 bei3 che1 j h a n4 TYPY; toi4 bak1 ce1 zaam6 Jyutping) = Toi-bak Ce-zaam (Cantonese Yale: Toìh-bāk Chē-jaahm)
Do you think that substituting Jyutping for Bastardized Wade-Giles would work? I mean, how would “Toi4-zung1” sound to you than “Taizhong”?
~Ben