It goes beyond spelling - English doesn't even have all the phonemes to represent ÄLSKVÄRD if you wanted to (particularly the last half) so you just have to gue

It goes beyond spelling - English doesn't even have all the phonemes to represent ÄLSKVÄRD if you wanted to (particularly the last half) so you just have to guess how that should sound anyways, especially since unfamiliaretters exist at the same time. If course you can do the approximation, it's not too hard to try, but you can do the same thing with spelling or any other attribute and end up with the same kind of problem - it just isn't the kind of word you'd deal with day to day. I wouldn't mind if English had some standardized spelling though :D.