Gary Kleppe wrote:

couldn't start until all of the family were here. The doors to the room
opened and Nodaka Saotme crept to her position on the low table. She sighed

Nodoka Saotome (What is it about Noddy that makes so many people spell
her name wrong? Her name gets botched far more than any other except for
the Chinese ones.)

OK, I've finally got to say it about those Chinese names.  Deliberately 
spelling a name however the heck you want to is not the same thing as 
just getting it wrong.  A case in point is "Serenity".  It's actually 
spelled "Selenity".  Nobody spells it that way, except in Japan because
people like "Serenity" better as a name, even though the original 
spelling contains a double edged pun on the whole Moon concept.