Hi, the author of the tool here. The tool was created five years ago, when there were no Ukrainian national standard to represent Ukrainian language unambiguou

Hi, the author of the tool here. The tool was created five years ago, when there were no Ukrainian national standard to represent Ukrainian language unambiguously in Latin letters (known as romanization, and applies to all languages). Most commonly you need romanization of person and place names, and the currently in use standard for this is not faithful to Cyrillic source. In my view, we can't have proper name romanization without romanization of the language as a whole, and wide adoption of that romanization. The simplest criteria to choose such a system is the ease of reading pages of transliterated texts. Thus I made a tool where you can compare historical and modern attempts at such romanization systems, or create your own and join the discussion. Since then, there is now new Ukrainian national standard ДСТУ 9112:2021, which adequately represents Ukrainian Cyrillic (to new learners: here j is used for palatalized consonants: Zelensjkyj u Ljvovi). The search is over, and this standard will be gradually adopted in the coming years. Expect another campaign KyïvNotKyivNotKiev (Kyïv = Kyjiv). This tool remains useful in many ways. I personally have it enabled on many sites. Would Ukrainian be better off dropping Cyrillic for Latin? If we had started with Latin, then sure, Ukraine historically is tightly connected with the rest of the Europe, and it would have been easier having only Latin. But we have Cyrillic history, and to counter that there is no enough reasons to switch. As others mentioned, the tool does not handle Russian Cyrillic. Well true, because it was created exclusively for the Ukrainian Cyrillic, not any Cyrillic. Thank you for your patience and support. https://paiv.github.io/latynka/ https://paiv.github.io/latynka/