I actually wrote a service attempting to deal with this exact problem, the amount of edge cases and exceptions make it particularly challenging, nearing that of

I actually wrote a service attempting to deal with this exact problem, the amount of edge cases and exceptions make it particularly challenging, nearing that of general NLP. https://www.alphanym.com/ https://www.alphanym.com/ Probably my favorite case were some Manchurian names, which could only be spelled vertically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurhaci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurhaci