Patent ID: 8839102

Claim:
A method for rendering and displaying a name of a first file in a directory of files, the method comprising: a computer receiving a request to display, in a first natural language, a list of files in the directory, and in response, the computer determining that the name of the first file contains (a) a first plurality of characters from a first alphabet of the first natural language and (b) a second plurality of characters in a second, different alphabet of a second natural language, and in response, the computer converting the second plurality of characters to corresponding characters of a third alphabet which are mapped to respective, different characters in the first alphabet language and respective, different characters in the second alphabet, the characters of the third alphabet being sufficiently similar in appearance to the corresponding characters in the first alphabet and the corresponding characters in the second alphabet such that a first person who is able to read the first natural language is able to understand the characters of the third alphabet and a second person who is able to read the second natural language is able to understand the characters of the third alphabet, the characters of the third alphabet being different than the corresponding characters of the first and second alphabets; and the computer displaying in the list the one file name with the first plurality of characters in the first natural language and the second plurality of characters converted to the third alphabet.