Successful translation ?

[davidjackson]

I would suggest that there is nothing wrong with a solution that offers a many to one transliteration - some languages do this, after all.

However, the translator has to establish a grammar to go with the transliteration. You can't switch and swop as you want to, which is what all of these translations do. There have to be rules that are consistent, in the same way that natural languages do.

For example, Greek letters <η> <ι> <υ> are pronounced [i] and so modern transcriptions often render them all as <i> into Latin languages.