1. A method for creating and using phonetic schemes comprising the steps of: providing a phonetic scheme creation feature that is operable to allow a user to create a phonetic scheme, the phonetic scheme comprising one or more available phonetic character combinations in a source language and a resulting one or more native characters in a destination language for each of the phonetic character combinations; and providing a phonetic input application that is operable to read the phonetic scheme to translate a respective character combination that is input by the user from the available phonetic character combinations in the source language into a corresponding one or more of the resulting native characters in the destination language.