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Now imagine the increases in difficulty when we deal with non-Latin names, which often have 2 to 3 ways of being translated to Latin name schemes.

This is why any list does not work as its non-specific whereas if we get specific about metadata that is combined with the name than we have an effective block list instead of a government cluster fuck.




Check out pages 304--308 in the list linked elsewhere. All devoted to one guy with about twelve romanizations.




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