About spelling these exotic names. This was told as truth by a prominent woman I know. As she was reading a list of participants she was to introduce, she came to one that stumped her. She went to the girl's mother and asked how to pronounce the daughter's name.
The mother replied "ajs oh lay". Thanking her, the intrducer looked down and studied the list, where the girl's name was listed as----asshole(asj oh lay). I guess it's French, you know. So sophisticated.