How can I convert Cyrillic string into English in c#

Question

Is it posible to convert Cyrillic string to English(Latin) in c#? For example I need to convert \"Петролеум\" in \"Petroleum\". Plus I forgot to mention that if I have Cyril

Answer 1

This is solution for serbian cyrillic-latin transliteration for form like this: form

namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        Dictionary<string, string> slova = new Dictionary<string, string>();

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            slova.Add("Љ", "Lj");
            slova.Add("Њ", "Nj");
            slova.Add("Џ", "Dž");
            slova.Add("љ", "lj");
            slova.Add("њ", "nj");
            slova.Add("џ", "dž");
            slova.Add("а", "a");
            slova.Add("б", "b");
            slova.Add("в", "v");
            slova.Add("г", "g");
            slova.Add("д", "d");
            slova.Add("ђ", "đ");
            slova.Add("е", "e");
            slova.Add("ж", "ž");
            slova.Add("з", "z");
            slova.Add("и", "i");
            slova.Add("ј", "j");
            slova.Add("к", "k");
            slova.Add("л", "l");
            slova.Add("м", "m");
            slova.Add("н", "n");
            slova.Add("о", "o");
            slova.Add("п", "p");
            slova.Add("р", "r");
            slova.Add("с", "s");
            slova.Add("т", "t");
            slova.Add("ћ", "ć");
            slova.Add("у", "u");
            slova.Add("ф", "f");
            slova.Add("х", "h");
            slova.Add("ц", "c");
            slova.Add("ч", "č");
            slova.Add("ш", "š");
        }

        // Method for cyrillic to latin
        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string source = textBox1.Text;
            foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> pair in slova)
            {
                source = source.Replace(pair.Key, pair.Value);
                // For upper case
                source = source.Replace(pair.Key.ToUpper(), 
                                        pair.Value.ToUpper());                             
            }
            textBox2.Text = source;
        }

        // Method for latin to cyrillic
        private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string source = textBox2.Text;
            foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> pair in slova)
            {
                source = source.Replace(pair.Value, pair.Key);
                // For upper case
                source = source.Replace(pair.Value.ToUpper(),  
                                        pair.Key.ToUpper());
            }
            textBox1.Text = source;
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

If you're using Windows 7, you can take advantage of the new ELS (Extended Linguistic Services) API, which provides transliteration functionality for you. Have a look at the Windows 7 API Code Pack - it's a set of managed wrappers on top of many new API in Windows 7 (such as the new Taskbar). Look in the Samples folder for the Transliterator example, you'll find it's exactly what you're looking for:

Answer 3

I'm not familiar with Cyrillic, but if it's just a 1-to-1 mapping of Cyrillic characters to Latin characters that you're after, you can use a dictionary of character pairs and map each character individually:

var map = new Dictionary<char, string>
{
    { 'П', "P" },
    { 'е', "e" },
    { 'т', "t" },
    { 'р', "r" },
    ...
}

var result = string.Concat("Петролеум".Select(c => map[c]));

Answer 4

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/#Transliteration

Google offer this AJAX based transliteration service. This way you can avoid computing transliterations yourself and let Google do them on the fly. It'd mean letting the client-side make the request to Google, so this means your app would need to have some kind of web-based output for this solution to work.