16. A method for transliterating a complex character-based writing system including characters into an at least partially phonetic symbol-based writing system including symbols, said method comprising: entering, with a human-to-machine interface, a string of characters of the complex character-based writing system into a transliterating engine; parsing said string of characters into individual characters, each character corresponding to one of a plurality of substrings of symbols; transliterating each of said characters into a corresponding substring of symbols; displaying said substring of symbols; wherein said transliterating comprises matching, by database retrieval, each substring series of symbols with one and only one characters; wherein at least one substring of symbols includes at least three symbols, which corresponds to one and only one character, at least one first symbol provides phonetic information, at least one second symbol provides information about a radical of said character and at least one third symbol provides information about the shape of the part of said character other than said radical.
16. A method for transliterating a complex character-based writing system including characters into an at least partially phonetic symbol-based writing system including symbols, said method comprising: entering, with a human-to-machine interface, a string of characters of the complex character-based writing system into a transliterating engine; parsing said string of characters into individual characters, each character corresponding to one of a plurality of substrings of symbols; transliterating each of said characters into a corresponding substring of symbols; displaying said substring of symbols; wherein said transliterating comprises matching, by database retrieval, each substring series of symbols with one and only one characters; wherein at least one substring of symbols includes at least three symbols, which corresponds to one and only one character, at least one first symbol provides phonetic information, at least one second symbol provides information about a radical of said character and at least one third symbol provides information about the shape of the part of said character other than said radical. 19. A method according to claim 16 , further comprising segmenting said at least one string of symbols to identify words and separating the identified words with spaces.