Biatec - Transliteration into Latin script

What is transliteration?

Transliteration is the process of converting characters from one script to another. In the context of bank statements, this means that non-Latin characters (e.g., Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Devanagari, Kana, Hangul) are replaced with their Latin equivalents. This is necessary because most accounting software in the Czech Republic and Slovakia does not support scripts other than Latin.

Transliteration can be set for each text field individually. Fields for which transliteration is available:

Note 1
Note 2
Note 3
Counterparty name
Type
Description
Status

Supported fonts and countries

Transliteration covers 9 scripts and characters used in 50+ countries:

Script	Languages / Countries	Modes
Cyrillic	Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Belarus, Bulgaria	Abbreviated (ISO 9) + Phonetic (BGN/PCGN)
Greek	Greece, Cyprus (including accents ά, έ, ή... and diacritics ϊ, ϋ)	Abbreviated (ISO 843 Type 1) + Phonetic (ISO 843 Type 2)
Georgian	Georgia	National Romanization
Armenian	Armenia	ISO 9985
Arabic	Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and others	Simplified Romanization
Devanagari	India (Hindi, Marathi), Nepal (Nepali)	Simplified IAST
Japanese	Japan (Hiragana + Katakana; Kanji is not supported)	Hepburn romanization
Korean	South Korea, North Korea	Revised Romanization (algorithmic decomposition of Hangul syllables)
Extended Latin	CZ, SK, PL, HU, DE, AT, CH (ä, ö, ü, ß) , RO, FR, ES, PT, IT, TR (Ğ, İ, Ş) , HR, BA, SI (Đ) , IS (ð, þ) , MT (ħ) , NO, SE, DK (å, ø) + other Latin-script countries via Unicode NFKD fallback (LV, LT, EE, FI, NL, BE...)	Diacritics removal + mapping to ASCII

Transliteration modes

Mode	Description	Example (Щ)	Usage
Off	No conversion, characters remain in their original form	Щ	If the accounting program supports Unicode
Abbreviated (ISO 9)	Each character = exactly 1 Latin character. Reversible conversion according to ISO 9:1995	S	When you need to preserve the same text length
Phonetic (BGN/PCGN)	Translation based on pronunciation. One character may represent multiple letters	shch	When you want a readable and understandable output

Russian Cyrillic (А-Я)

Complete conversion table for Russian characters in both modes:

Character	ISO 9	BGN/PCGN	Character	ISO 9	BGN/PCGN
A a	A a	A a	П п	P p	P p
B b	B b	B b	Р р	R r	R r
В в	V v	V v	С с	S s	S s
Г г	G g	G g	T t	T t	T t
D d	D d	D d	U u	U u	U u
E e	E e	Ye ye	Ф ф	F f	F f
Ё ё	Yo yo	Yo yo	Х х	H h	Kh kh
Ж ж	Z z	Zh zh	Ц ц	C c	Ts ts
Z z	Z z	Z z	Ч ч	C c	Ch ch
И и	I i	I i	Ш ш	S s	Sh sh
Y y	J j	Y y	Щ щ	S s	Shch shch
K k	K k	K k	Ъ ъ	"	(omitted)
Л л	L l	L l	Y y	Y y	Y y
М м	M m	M m	Ь ь	'	(omitted)
Н н	N n	N n	Э э	E e	E e
O o	O o	O o	Yu yu	Yu yu	Yu yu
			Я я	Ya ya	Ya ya

Greek alphabet

Translation of Greek characters according to ISO 843:1997:

Character	ISO 843	Character	ISO 843
Α α	A a	Ν ν	N n
B b	V v	Ξ ξ	X x
Γ γ	G g	Ο ο	O o
Δ δ	D d	Π π	P p
E e	E e	R r	R r
Z z	Z z	Σ σ/ς	S s
Η η	I i	T t	T t
Θ θ	Th th	Υ υ	Y y
I i	I i	Φ φ	F f
K k	K k	Χ χ	Ch ch
Λ λ	L l	Ψ ψ	Ps ps
M m	M m	Ω ω	O o

Greek accented characters (tonos and diacritics)

Greek letters with accents are automatically converted to their basic Latin equivalents. For example, the name Ψυχούλα is correctly converted to Psychoula (not Psychola).

Character	Translation	Character	Translation
Ά ά	A a	Ό ό	O o
E e	E e	Ύ ύ	Y y
Ή ή	I i	Ώ ώ	O o
Ί ί	I i	ϊ ϋ (dialectics)	i y
		ΐ ΰ	i y

Extended Cyrillic (Ukrainian, Serbian, Macedonian, Belarusian)

Language-specific characters:

Character	Language	ISO 9	BGN/PCGN
Ґ ґ	Ukrainian	G g	G g
Є є	Ukrainian	Ye ye	Ye ye
І і	Ukrainian	I i	I i
Ї ї	Ukrainian	Yi yi	Yi yi
Ђ ђ	Serbian	D d	Dj dj
Ј ј	Serbian	J j	J j
Љ љ	Serbian	Lj lj	Lj lj
Њ њ	Serbian	Nj nj	Nj nj
Ћ ћ	Serbian	C c	C c
Џ џ	Serbian	Dz dz	Dz dz
�� ѓ	Macedonian	G g	Gj gj
Ѕ ѕ	Macedonian	Dz dz	Dz dz
Ќ ќ	Macedonian	K k	Kj kj
Ў ў	Belarusian	U u	W w

Other non-ASCII characters

Turkish, Romanian, and Balkan special characters:

Character	Language	Conversion
Ğ ğ	Turkish	G g
İ i	Turkish	I i
Ş ş	Turkish	S s
Ă ă	Romanian	A a
Ș ș	Romanian	S s
Ț ț	Romanian	T t
Đ đ	Balkan (Croatian, Serbian)	D d
Ð ð	Icelandic	D d
Þ þ	Icelandic	Th th
Ħ ħ	Maltese	H h

Dots and slashes in GPC

In the counterparty name field (20 characters in GPC), periods (.) and slashes (/). These characters are important for the readability of titles and legal forms:

Dr. Novák — academic title
s.r.o., a.s. — legal form of the company
a/s — Danish legal form (aktieselskab)

Georgian alphabet (მხედრული)

Transcription of Georgian characters according to the national romanization system:

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
ა	a	ლ	l	c	ts
B	b	m	m	dz	dz
g	g	n	n	ts	ts
d	d	o	o	ჭ	ch
e	e	P	p	X	kh
v	v	ž	zh	j	j
Z	z	R	r	H	h
t	t	S	s
i	i	t	t
K	k	u	u

Armenian alphabet (Հայոց այբուբdelays)

Conversion of Armenian characters according to ISO 9985:

Character	Conversion	Character	Translation	Character	Conversion
A	A a	Ծ Ծ	Ts ts	S s	S s
B b	B b	K k	K k	V v	V v
G g	G g	H h	H h	T t	T t
D d	D d	Z z	Dz dz	R r	R r
E e	E e	Gh gh	Gh gh	C c	Ts ts
Z z	Z z	C c	Ch ch	Q q	W w
E e	E e	M m	M m	F f	P p
Z z	Y y	Y y	Y y	Q q	K k
Th Th	T t	N n	N n	O o	O o
Zh zh	Zh zh	Sh sh	Sh sh	F f	F f
I i	I i	U u	O o
L l	L l	Ch ch	Ch ch
Kh kh	Kh kh	P p	P p

Arabic (العربية)

Basic Arabic characters (without taškhíl diacritics):

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
ا	and	ز	z	ق	q
B	b	س	s	ك	k
t	t	ش	sh	ل	l
ث	th	ص	s	م	m
ج	j	ض	d	n	n
ح	h	ط	t	ه	h
خ	kh	ظ	z	و	w
d	d	ع	a	y	y
ذ	dh	غ	gh
ر	r	ف	f

Devanagari (देवनागरी)

Transliteration for Hindi, Nepali, and Marathi (simplified IAST):

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
A	and	ch	cha	p	pa
ā	aa	j	ja	B	ba
i	i	T	ta	M	ma
u	u	d	da	y	ya
A	e	n	na	R	ra
ऐ	ai	t	ta	L	la
O	o	d	da	sh	sha
au	au	n	na	s	sa
k	ka	kh	kha	h	ha
g	ga	gh	gha

Japanese (日本語) — Kana

Hiragana and katakana are converted according to Hepburn romanization. Kanji (Chinese characters) are not supported — they require dictionary transliteration.

Hiragana	Katakana	Translation	Hiragana	Katakana	Translation
a	ア	a	na	Na	na
i	イ	i	to	ニ	ni
u	U	u	ha	Ha	ha
e	E	e	ma	マ	ma
o	O	o	ya	Ya	ya
ka	カ	ka	ra	ラ	ra
sa	サ	sa	wa	Wa	wa
ta	タ	ta	n	N	n

Only basic syllables are displayed. Dakuten (が, ガ → ga) and handakuten (ぱ, パ → pa) variants are also supported.

Korean (한국어) — Hangul

Hangul syllables are algorithmically decomposed into an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant according to the Revised Romanization of Korean. Example: 한국 → hanguk.

Initial consonants				Vowels (selection)
ㄱ	g	ㅁ	m	ㅏ	a	o	o
n	n	ㅂ	b	ㅐ	ae	ㅜ	u
ㄷ	d	ㅅ	s	ㅓ	eo	ㅡ	eu
ㄹ	r	j	j	ㅔ	e	i	i

When to use transliteration?

Important: If your accounting software does not support Cyrillic or other non-Latin scripts, enable transliteration. Otherwise, unreadable characters or question marks will appear in notes and counterparty names.

POHODA — we recommend enabling transliteration; the GPC format supports only ASCII characters
Money S3 — we recommend enabling transliteration for GPC; SEPA XML supports Unicode
FlexiBee — SEPA XML supports Unicode; enable transliteration for GPC

If you process bank statements where names and notes are in Cyrillic (e.g., payments from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Serbia), transliteration ensures that this data will be readable in Latin script.

Sources and Standards

ISO 9:1995 — international standard for transliterating Cyrillic into Latin script (1 character = 1 character)
BGN/PCGN — phonetic system of the Board on Geographic Names (USA) and the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (UK)
ISO 843:1997 — international standard for the transliteration of Greek into the Latin alphabet

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
ა	a	ლ	l	c	ts
B	b	m	m	dz	dz
g	g	n	n	ts	ts
d	d	o	o	ჭ	ch
e	e	P	p	X	kh
v	v	ž	zh	j	j
Z	z	R	r	H	h
t	t	S	s
i	i	t	t
K	k	u	u

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
ا	and	ز	z	ق	q
B	b	س	s	ك	k
t	t	ش	sh	ل	l
ث	th	ص	s	م	m
ج	j	ض	d	n	n
ح	h	ط	t	ه	h
خ	kh	ظ	z	و	w
d	d	ع	a	y	y
ذ	dh	غ	gh
ر	r	ف	f

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
A	and	ch	cha	p	pa
ā	aa	j	ja	B	ba
i	i	T	ta	M	ma
u	u	d	da	y	ya
A	e	n	na	R	ra
ऐ	ai	t	ta	L	la
O	o	d	da	sh	sha
au	au	n	na	s	sa
k	ka	kh	kha	h	ha
g	ga	gh	gha

Hiragana	Katakana	Translation	Hiragana	Katakana	Translation
a	ア	a	na	Na	na
i	イ	i	to	ニ	ni
u	U	u	ha	Ha	ha
e	E	e	ma	マ	ma
o	O	o	ya	Ya	ya
ka	カ	ka	ra	ラ	ra
sa	サ	sa	wa	Wa	wa
ta	タ	ta	n	N	n

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
ა	a	ლ	l	c	ts
B	b	m	m	dz	dz
g	g	n	n	ts	ts
d	d	o	o	ჭ	ch
e	e	P	p	X	kh
v	v	ž	zh	j	j
Z	z	R	r	H	h
t	t	S	s
i	i	t	t
K	k	u	u

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
ا	and	ز	z	ق	q
B	b	س	s	ك	k
t	t	ش	sh	ل	l
ث	th	ص	s	م	m
ج	j	ض	d	n	n
ح	h	ط	t	ه	h
خ	kh	ظ	z	و	w
d	d	ع	a	y	y
ذ	dh	غ	gh
ر	r	ف	f

Character	Transliteration	Character	Transliteration	Character	Conversion
A	and	ch	cha	p	pa
ā	aa	j	ja	B	ba
i	i	T	ta	M	ma
u	u	d	da	y	ya
A	e	n	na	R	ra
ऐ	ai	t	ta	L	la
O	o	d	da	sh	sha
au	au	n	na	s	sa
k	ka	kh	kha	h	ha
g	ga	gh	gha

Hiragana	Katakana	Translation	Hiragana	Katakana	Translation
a	ア	a	na	Na	na
i	イ	i	to	ニ	ni
u	U	u	ha	Ha	ha
e	E	e	ma	マ	ma
o	O	o	ya	Ya	ya
ka	カ	ka	ra	ラ	ra
sa	サ	sa	wa	Wa	wa
ta	タ	ta	n	N	n

Latin Transliteration