In addition to being a programmer, I have a degree in linguistics and I can read a handful of scripts, and honestly, I don't understand how this "algorithm" cou

In addition to being a programmer, I have a degree in linguistics and I can read a handful of scripts, and honestly, I don't understand how this "algorithm" could possibly work. When you have two languages written in different alphabets, what are you actually comparing? Even if the underlying languages might be the same, the writing systems can be completely different. And in fact, it seems obvious that a writing system with 80 symbols is not comparable to one with 400. Honestly, the thing I'd want to see this applied to is something like Chinese in Chinese script vs. the same texts in transliteration.