Local scripts supported by Grid
The Moody's name matching engine has a degree of transliteration support for most common scripts. The search is transliterated to Latin script and then run through the search process against corresponding names.
Common scripts supported by the engine include:
Latin-based scripts: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and Vietnamese
Japanese Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji
Korean Hangul
Arabic
Greek
Turkish
Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
Devanagari
Russian Cyrillic
Note
Profiles built from non-Latin script sources always feature a Latin script transliteration in the Name field of the profile, with the local script name captured in the Alias field.
Character sets supported in electronic communications
Grid supports the following character sets for electronic communications:
UTF-8 encoded characters within an inquiry name
Latin/Roman characters
Simplified Chinese