1. A method for transliterating an at least partially phonetic symbol-based writing system including symbols into a complex character-based writing system including characters, said method comprising: entering, with a human-to-machine interface, a string of symbols of said partially phonetic symbol-based writing system into a transliterating engine; parsing said string of symbols into a plurality of substrings, each substring forming an utterance unit corresponding to a character of said string of characters which corresponds to said string of symbols, and at least one substring of symbols including at least three symbols; transliterating said substrings into corresponding characters; displaying the corresponding characters; wherein said transliterating comprises matching, by database retrieval, each substring with one and only one character of the complex character-based writing system; and wherein, in said at least one substring of symbols including 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.
1. A method for transliterating an at least partially phonetic symbol-based writing system including symbols into a complex character-based writing system including characters, said method comprising: entering, with a human-to-machine interface, a string of symbols of said partially phonetic symbol-based writing system into a transliterating engine; parsing said string of symbols into a plurality of substrings, each substring forming an utterance unit corresponding to a character of said string of characters which corresponds to said string of symbols, and at least one substring of symbols including at least three symbols; transliterating said substrings into corresponding characters; displaying the corresponding characters; wherein said transliterating comprises matching, by database retrieval, each substring with one and only one character of the complex character-based writing system; and wherein, in said at least one substring of symbols including 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. 7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said character-based writing system is at least partly based on a Chinese character writing system comprising at least one of the following sets of characters: traditional hanzi, simplified hanzi, kanji, hanja, chu nho, and/or chu nôm.