System and method for transliteration of textual messages for mobile devices

A system for performing transliteration of a textual message, comprising:

• a processing unit;
• an interface to a network communicatively coupled to the processing unit, for communicating with at least a first device and a second device;
• and
• a memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit, the memory containing instructions that when executed by the processing unit configure the system to:
• receive, from a first network texting element, the textual message sent from a first mobile device and destined to a second mobile device, wherein the textual message comprises a first character set;
• determine if the first character set is supported by the second mobile device;
• determine a second character set supported by the second mobile device when the first character set is not supported by the second mobile device;
• transliterate the textual message to the second character set;
• and
• send the transliterated textual message to a second network texting element.