18. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the match score comprises determining an edit distance between the Latin-based input data string and a Latin-based representation of a language text string in the one or more candidate records.
18. The method of claim 1 wherein the determining the match score comprises determining an edit distance between the Latin-based input data string and a Latin-based representation of a language text string in the one or more candidate records. 24. The method of claim 18 wherein the determining the match score comprises normalizing the edit distance.