a system is proposed for identifying orders in an order management system which are to proscribed individuals or organizations having chinese addresses . the chinese address items of the order management database , and the chinese address items of a database of proscribed individuals and organizations , are each converted into respective databases in a common writing system , namely the pin yin transliteration standard . in the conversion process , simplified mandarin items in the order management database which can be converted in multiple ways are converted in each of those ways . the converted items from the two pin yin databases are then compared .