I had a professor with a foreign name from someplace that didn't use the Roman alphabet. His credit report had like 30-some-odd spellings of his name. When ask

I had a professor with a foreign name from someplace that didn't use the Roman alphabet. His credit report had like 30-some-odd spellings of his name. When asked "So what is the correct spelling?" he snarkily shot back "You tell me." It's not a standard western name. It wasn't originally written I'm English. Attempts to translate it to English -- well, they are guesses on how to spell what someone thinks they are hearing from a language that the Roman alphabet isn't designed to capture.