The i18n Cookbook - recipies for a global society

Problem:

You want to convert the script text is written in.

Solution:

The Transliterator from icu4j class allows for easy conversion of text from one writing system to another.  To transliterate text you simply get an instance of the Transliterator class using the id of the writing system you are converting from, and the id of the system you want to convert into, and then call the transliterate method on the object.

Problem:

You have a source id but you want to retrieve all available target ids for the source id.

Solution:

A Transliterator is retrieved using an id that is a combination of a source and target id.

Problem:

You want to retireve all available source ids for a Transliterator.

Solution:

A Transliterator is created using a combination of a source and a target id joined by a hyphen. 

To get a list of all sources:

Problem:

You want to get all available transliterator ids.

Solution:

You obtain a Transliterator by specifying an id.  The id is a String that contains two script names separated by a hyphen, for example: "Latin-Hangul."

To obtain a list of all ids: