Since such a raspberry has gone and we have ceased to live in the great country of the “USSR” and still began to let out “zabugor”, people without access to the Cyrillic keyboard appeared in the world by hook or by crook.
As a result, on the sites from the
odnoklassniki.ru or
vkontakte.ru series, a significant percentage of users indicate their names / surnames in Latin. From this it follows that it becomes quite difficult to find them through the search form, because after searching for a Cyrillic name, it is necessary to figure out all the possible translit options.
It turns out that in order to find “Knyazev Masha” I look through the following options: “Knyazeva Masha”, “Knyazeva Maria”, “Knyazeva Maria”, “Knjazeva Maria”, “Knyazewa Maria”, “Knjazewa Maria”. Horror! Already six additional banner shows on the site: D
Actually, the idea is to automate this process in search on such sites? I mean, entering the name in Cyrillic, immediately passes and a search for all possible translit "declensions"!