Emacs transliteration?

Question

Is there some way to get transliteration to work in Emacs, sort of like it does in Gmail now? I am particularly interested in getting it to work in Cyrillic.

For reference, Gmail does something like the following: I can type svoboda and it will output свобода. This allows somebody like me who speaks Russian but cannot type to easily input Cyrillic characters. In Gmail this works with other languages, but I am only really worried about Cyrillic.

Answer 1

I think this will do it:

M-x set-input-method cyrillic-translit