leviathan
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My last name starts with a ق and in latin it's written with a K.
The tools were just to provide a way to write letters that do not have a corresponding letter in latin alphabet, it's not a way to provide all the nuances of pronunciation.
All that 5 and 6 and 9 crap is useless and those letter were and could be done with normal latin letters:
5 already has kh, 6 already has t, 9 already has d, don't know what people used for غ but you can write it with gh
I might be wrong, but I think even early versions of Gmail did something similar.
13 years and counting. But I’m sure I’ll eventually clean mine up