Does it transliterate into ASCII only?
Yes. The Translit Converter is one-way to plain Latin ASCII output, which is ideal for slugs, filenames, and simple systems.
Can I use this before generating a slug?
Yes. It pairs naturally with a slug generator and filename cleaner, giving you a clean ASCII base before the next step.
Does it upload my text?
No. The Translit Converter runs entirely in your browser, so your text stays on your device and is never uploaded.
Is it free to use?
Yes. The Translit Converter is free with no signup and runs fully in your browser.
Which transliteration standard does this follow?
None of them. It uses one practical scheme aimed at slugs, filenames and ASCII-only systems, where the goal is a readable Latin string rather than a reversible or officially sanctioned one. If you need the exact spelling that appears in a passport, use the standard your authority mandates, because ICAO and GOST differ from this map in several letters.
Why do the soft and hard signs disappear?
Because there is no useful ASCII equivalent. Mapping them to an apostrophe is common in academic transliteration but produces awkward output in a URL or a filename, which is the main use for this tool. They are dropped, so объект becomes obekt.
What happens to accented Latin characters?
They are handled by a separate step that decomposes each character into its base letter plus its combining marks and then discards the marks. So é becomes e, ñ becomes n and ü becomes u. This is the whole Latin range, not a hand-written list, so it works for Vietnamese and Czech text as well as French and German.
Where did my Chinese text go?
It was dropped. After the Cyrillic map and the diacritic stripping, any character still outside the ASCII range is removed from the output. Non-Latin, non-Cyrillic scripts have no entry in the map, so they do not survive the pass. The output is ASCII by construction.
Can I convert the output back to Cyrillic?
No, and no tool could do it reliably from this output. The map is lossy: е and ё both become e, и and і both become i, and the soft sign disappears. There is not enough information left in the Latin string to reconstruct the original.
Does the text leave my browser?
No. The map is a lookup table in the page and the conversion is a single pass over the string. Nothing is sent to a server.