for example if someone with a Japanese name needs to write it using the English alphabet (perhaps for a legal document?) do they get to decide what letters will work best or maybe is there a general system they’ll use to translate it over? this is not limited to my example, I am curious about other languages that use characters as well!
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The Japanese specifically use Romaji which is a standardized phonetic transition from their characters/phonetics to the Latin alphabet that we know and love.
Other languages have different systems.
Some of them do guess, though. There are more languages than there are standardized systems.
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