Method, system and computer program product for automatic character transliteration in a text string object

A computer program product within a computer usable medium for encapsulating text string representations, comprising:

• instructions for storing a text string entered in a first character set for a first human language in which the text string was entered within a first field of a multi-field data packet in the first character set;
• instructions for automatically mapping characters of the entered text string from the first character set to a second character set different than the first character set for a second human language to generate a mapped text string and for automatically sound-mapping characters within the entered text string from the first character set for the first human language to the second character set for the second human language;
• instructions for storing the mapped text string within a second field of the multi-field data packet in the second character set;
• and
• instructions for storing a sort value for said text string in a third field of said multi-field data packet.

A method of storing text, comprising:

• receiving an entered character string;
• determining whether the entered character string comprises Latin characters;
• responsive to determining that the entered character string comprises Latin characters, storing the entered character string in each field of a multi-field string class;
• responsive to determining that the entered character string does not comprise Latin characters:
• storing the entered character string in a first field of the multi-field string class;
• determining whether the entered character string comprises characters which may be sound-mapped to Latin characters;
• responsive to determining that the entered character string comprises characters which may be sound-mapped to Latin characters:
• transliterating the entered characters to corresponding Latin characters;
• storing the corresponding Latin character in a second field of the multi-field text class;
• and
• storing a sort value for said entered text string in a third field of the multi-field text class.