Google Transliteration offers an option for converting Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language. Note that this is not the same as translation -- it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. For example, typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as: 
and typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as: 
Transliteration is available for the following 23 languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu and Tigrinya, Urdu. Transliteration is available in Blogger, Gmail, Knol, Orkut and as a bookmarklet. You can also enable it on your website using the transliteration API. Not all product integrations are available for all languages.
Visit http://www.google.com/transliterate/about.html for more information.
and typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as: 
Transliteration is available for the following 23 languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu and Tigrinya, Urdu. Transliteration is available in Blogger, Gmail, Knol, Orkut and as a bookmarklet. You can also enable it on your website using the transliteration API. Not all product integrations are available for all languages.
Visit http://www.google.com/transliterate/about.html for more information.
