transliterating cyrillic to latin with javascript function

Question

I made this function:

function transliterate(word){

    var answer = \"\";

    A = new Array();
    A[\"Ё\"]=\"YO\";A[\"Й\"]=\"I\";A[\"Ц\"]=\"TS\";A[\"У\"         


        

Answer 1

In my projects I am using this method of transliterating:

var transliterate = function(text) {

    text = text
        .replace(/\u0401/g, 'YO')
        .replace(/\u0419/g, 'I')
        .replace(/\u0426/g, 'TS')
        .replace(/\u0423/g, 'U')
        .replace(/\u041A/g, 'K')
        .replace(/\u0415/g, 'E')
        .replace(/\u041D/g, 'N')
        .replace(/\u0413/g, 'G')
        .replace(/\u0428/g, 'SH')
        .replace(/\u0429/g, 'SCH')
        .replace(/\u0417/g, 'Z')
        .replace(/\u0425/g, 'H')
        .replace(/\u042A/g, '')
        .replace(/\u0451/g, 'yo')
        .replace(/\u0439/g, 'i')
        .replace(/\u0446/g, 'ts')
        .replace(/\u0443/g, 'u')
        .replace(/\u043A/g, 'k')
        .replace(/\u0435/g, 'e')
        .replace(/\u043D/g, 'n')
        .replace(/\u0433/g, 'g')
        .replace(/\u0448/g, 'sh')
        .replace(/\u0449/g, 'sch')
        .replace(/\u0437/g, 'z')
        .replace(/\u0445/g, 'h')
        .replace(/\u044A/g, "'")
        .replace(/\u0424/g, 'F')
        .replace(/\u042B/g, 'I')
        .replace(/\u0412/g, 'V')
        .replace(/\u0410/g, 'a')
        .replace(/\u041F/g, 'P')
        .replace(/\u0420/g, 'R')
        .replace(/\u041E/g, 'O')
        .replace(/\u041B/g, 'L')
        .replace(/\u0414/g, 'D')
        .replace(/\u0416/g, 'ZH')
        .replace(/\u042D/g, 'E')
        .replace(/\u0444/g, 'f')
        .replace(/\u044B/g, 'i')
        .replace(/\u0432/g, 'v')
        .replace(/\u0430/g, 'a')
        .replace(/\u043F/g, 'p')
        .replace(/\u0440/g, 'r')
        .replace(/\u043E/g, 'o')
        .replace(/\u043B/g, 'l')
        .replace(/\u0434/g, 'd')
        .replace(/\u0436/g, 'zh')
        .replace(/\u044D/g, 'e')
        .replace(/\u042F/g, 'Ya')
        .replace(/\u0427/g, 'CH')
        .replace(/\u0421/g, 'S')
        .replace(/\u041C/g, 'M')
        .replace(/\u0418/g, 'I')
        .replace(/\u0422/g, 'T')
        .replace(/\u042C/g, "'")
        .replace(/\u0411/g, 'B')
        .replace(/\u042E/g, 'YU')
        .replace(/\u044F/g, 'ya')
        .replace(/\u0447/g, 'ch')
        .replace(/\u0441/g, 's')
        .replace(/\u043C/g, 'm')
        .replace(/\u0438/g, 'i')
        .replace(/\u0442/g, 't')
        .replace(/\u044C/g, "'")
        .replace(/\u0431/g, 'b')
        .replace(/\u044E/g, 'yu');

    return text;
};

Run this sample to transliterate:

transliterate('абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюяАБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ');

I have replaced all russian letters with their unicode analogs (each letter begins with \u) to solve problems with encoding in Javascript file.

To check the execution speed, i took the best answer to this question, and compared it with my example. My method appeared to be faster in several times (0.16 ms in Firebug :-).