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by kelnos 1915 days ago
Given that accepting non-Latin characters would likely require an overhaul of the business registration office's IT systems, they could also add a field where the registrant could additionally input the name using IPA[0] or even just a romanized/anglicized version. Someone who isn't familiar with the native alphabet or language could refer to that.

East/Southeast Asian and Slavic names are routinely mispronounced, even when transliterated to the Latin alphabet. This isn't even a problem unique to non-Latin alphabets. I butcher the pronunciation of some French names, for example, and with many Scandinavian words I don't even know where to start.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...