PHP convert cyrillic

Question

Which method of transliteration is true to convert cyrillic letters to latin letters?

Like writing russian names using english alphabet.

There are many methods of conversion, searching for one that is used on television or other mass media.

Thanks.

It seems to me that the OP is asking about transliteration, rather than technical conversion. If so, the answer is that there is not one 'true' mapping. Sorry. — Colin Fine, Aug 12 '10 at 14:40
@user257493: just need to convert russian names to latin letters. Its not about typing messages, about using them in urls. — James, Aug 12 '10 at 14:50
@user257493: its called transliteration and there are many maps on it. An example - http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/download/zip/package/2641/name/cyrlat-2005-10-26.zip — James, Aug 12 '10 at 14:52
@Colin Fine: yes, but which way is usually used for writing russian names on tvchannels like eurosport? There is some method, they can't invent — James, Aug 12 '10 at 14:54

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '10 at 14:59

You can take this http://drupal.org/project/transliteration and make it suit your project. This is one of the best implementations of transliteration.

Also you can transliterate using iconv:

echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $text), PHP_EOL;

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '10 at 14:32

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Take a look at this


mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', $encoding);

answered Aug 12 '10 at 14:32

Ventus

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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I assume you are looking for "transliteration", the conversion of text in foreign scripts to latin script, represented to "sound" the same way.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

Community

answered Aug 12 '10 at 14:39

Joeri Sebrechts

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 12 '10 at 14:33

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Have a look at iconv functions:

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