USE OF ENGLISH PHONETICS TO WRITE NON-ROMAN CHARACTERS

摘要

The present invention is directed to a system, method, and apparatus which permits users to create text documents using a particular non-Roman character set, with a Roman character keyboard (105). A user creating a document in a non-Roman character set phonetically types the sounds of the words using the Roman characters into an input graphical user interface (110). The typed characters are searched for in a transliteration database (120a-d) which correlates clusters of Roman characters which mimic the non-Roman characters to the respective non-Roman characters. The non-Roman character corresponding to the typed characters is then printed in an output graphical user interface.