inverse transliterate

[Morena!]

there is possible to have something like this:

سلام خوب هستي

transliterate to :

Salam khob hasti


...
I mean change native word to english character. I mean do not
translate it. just write as english alphabetic.

[kedar mhaswade]

This is a good question. It should be possible to do this although it's not clear which of the many ASCII transliterated forms possible for a unique Unicode string should be chosen. What I mean is: سلام خوب هستي is represented uniquely as a sequence of Unicode characters, but you can reach this string in many ways using transliteration (which is the biggest strength of transliteration facility anyway). But I agree, it should be possible to get one of those many forms back, when you present a Unicode character sequence.

What applications of this facility (reverse transliteration) do you have?

-Kedar

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[asdofindia]

i read somewhere in google blog or somewhere else i don't remember
(because i was using google reader, aand had so many posts to read)
but i read somewhere that google translation is allowing this... when
you translate words into other languages may be like korean, so that
you can learn that language may be, you won't get anything by having
the language written in that script...

yeah i found where it was, it was in
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-look-for-google-translate.html

This feature is called romanization of non-roman scriptss
and it is available for all non-roman scripts except arabic, hebrew
persian

Read and write any language: Want to say "Today is a good day" in
Chinese, but can't read Han characters? Click "Show romanization" to
read the text written phonetically in English. Right now, this works
for all non-Roman languages except for Hebrew, Arabic and Persian.

so i can do
namastē acchā jagata
Privet horoshiĭ Vselennoĭ
nín hǎo liáng hǎo de yǔ zhòu

but not
Salam khob hasti