>Not knowing what transliterate means, I searched the internet and the following wikepedia page gave me some further insights, also with regard to the problem of the alphabet, being Latin or not:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnglicizingThe real problem here is with languages that don't use the Latin alphabet. If any effort at systematization is made, each letter of the Cyrillic, Farsi (Persian), etc. alphabet will be assigned a single Latin letter, or a combination of Latin letters.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
