Translating names - Urgent!

[FencerPT]

Can anyone write me in Chinese characters the following names, belonging to the members of the Portuguese fencing team in the Beijing Olympics:

- Joaquim Videira

- Helder Alves

- Debora Nogueira

- Eduardo Pereira

Thanks in advance!

[FencerPT]

I posted a thread, last week, asking for someone's help to translate into Chinese the names of the Portuguese fencers who'll be in the Olympics (Debora Nogueira, Eduardo Pereira, Joaquim Videira and Helder Alves). Although lots of people read it, no translation is available so far. Is it that difficult?!

Thanks in advance.

[imron]

It's not necessarily difficult, it's just imprecise. Have a read of these two threads to get an idea of why:

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/12372-name-translation

http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/10886-chinese-characters-for-names

There is also the problem that any names that people provide for you here, will be different from the official names that will presumably be chosen for you by the Beijing Olympic organising committee and/or the Chinese media.

[Lu]

I also suspect that this is not the place to ask such things. If you need it for anything important (as suggested by the 'urgent'), you're best off asking some official source (some Chinese Olympic committee? Those fencers must have registered somewhere in China), not a public forum, however helpful people here are. If you are the official source, you should presumably find someone reliable used to this kind of work and pay them to give you a good transliteration.

I hope you find it!

[renzhe]

There are probably about 300 ways to transcribe each one of those names, and they are likely to be different from the official transcription used by the IOC.