Transliterate/transpose the characters in the NSString

Question

I want to transliterate a cyrillic string to it\'s closest latin equivalent. E.g. \"матрешка\" => \"matreshka\", \"водка\" => \"vodka\". So ideally I want some ready to use meth

Answer 1

Either try CFStringTransform function of CFMutableString with kCFStringTransformToLatin transform identifier or make a NSString category with simple mapping.

Edited by the question poster: more specifically it should be:

NSMutableString *buffer = [@"русский язык" mutableCopy];
CFMutableStringRef bufferRef = (__bridge CFMutableStringRef)buffer;
CFStringTransform(bufferRef, NULL, kCFStringTransformToLatin, false);
NSLog(@"%@", buffer); // outputs "russkij âzyk"