Transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin ICU4j java

Question

I need to do something rather simple but without hash mapping hard coding.

I have a String s and it is in Cyrillic I need some sort of example on how to turn it into Latin characters using a custom filter of a sort (to give a purely Latin example as to not confuse anyone if String s = sniff; I want it to look up s-n-i-f-f and change them into something else (there might also be combinations).

I can see that ICU4j can do this sort of thing but I have no idea how to achieve it as I can't find any working examples (or I'm just stupid).

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Best Regards,

PS I need a batch translate. I don't care about styles or dynamic transliteration just some basic example on what a ICU4j batch transliterator would look like.

K I actually got it.

import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;


public class BulgarianToLatin {


    public static String BULGARIAN_TO_LATIN = "Bulgarian-Latin/BGN";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String bgString = "Джокович";

        Transliterator bulgarianToLatin = Transliterator.getInstance(BULGARIAN_TO_LATIN);
        String result1 = bulgarianToLatin.transliterate(bgString);
        System.out.println("Bulgarian to Latin:" + result1);

    }

}

Also one last edit for a rule based transliteration ( if you do not wish to use the pre-existing once or just want something custom made )

import com.ibm.icu.text.Transliterator;

public class BulgarianToLatin {


    public static String BULGARIAN_TO_LATIN = "Bulgarian-Latin/BGN";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String bgString = "а б в г д е ж з и й к л м н о п р с т у ф х ц ч ш щ ю я  \n Юлиян Джокович";

        String rules="::[А-ЪЬЮ-ъьюяѢѣѪѫ];" +
        "Б > B;" +
        "б > b;" +
        "В > V;" +
        "ТС > TS;" +
        "Тс > Ts;" +
        "ч > ch;" +
        "ШТ > SHT;" +
        "Шт > Sht;" +
        "шт > sht;" +
        "{Ш}[[б-джзй-нп-тф-щь][аеиоуъюяѣѫ]] > Sh;" +
        "Я > YA;" +
        "я > ya;";
        Transliterator bulgarianToLatin = Transliterator.createFromRules("temp", rules, Transliterator.FORWARD);

        String result1 = bulgarianToLatin.transliterate(bgString);
        System.out.println("Bulgarian to Latin:" + result1);

    }

}

Answer 1

I've wrote a method to transliterate cyrillic to latin, maybe this would be useful to smb.

public static String transliterate(String message){
    char[] abcCyr =   {' ','а','б','в','г','д','е','ё', 'ж','з','и','й','к','л','м','н','о','п','р','с','т','у','ф','х', 'ц','ч', 'ш','щ','ъ','ы','ь','э', 'ю','я','А','Б','В','Г','Д','Е','Ё', 'Ж','З','И','Й','К','Л','М','Н','О','П','Р','С','Т','У','Ф','Х', 'Ц', 'Ч','Ш', 'Щ','Ъ','Ы','Ь','Э','Ю','Я','a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z','A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','U','V','W','X','Y','Z'};
    String[] abcLat = {" ","a","b","v","g","d","e","e","zh","z","i","y","k","l","m","n","o","p","r","s","t","u","f","h","ts","ch","sh","sch", "","i", "","e","ju","ja","A","B","V","G","D","E","E","Zh","Z","I","Y","K","L","M","N","O","P","R","S","T","U","F","H","Ts","Ch","Sh","Sch", "","I", "","E","Ju","Ja","a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z","A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z"};
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    for (int i = 0; i < message.length(); i++) {
        for (int x = 0; x < abcCyr.length; x++ ) {
            if (message.charAt(i) == abcCyr[x]) {
                builder.append(abcLat[x]);
            }
        }
    }
    return builder.toString();
}