diff --git a/include/functions.inc.php b/include/functions.inc.php
index cbc896e2f..3d46d1a52 100644
--- a/include/functions.inc.php
+++ b/include/functions.inc.php
@@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ if (function_exists('mb_strtolower') && defined('PWG_CHARSET'))
    * @param string $term
    * @return string
    */
-  function transliterate($term)
+  function pwg_transliterate($term)
   {
     return remove_accents( mb_strtolower($term, PWG_CHARSET) );
   }
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ else
   /**
    * @ignore
    */
-  function transliterate($term)
+  function pwg_transliterate($term)
   {
     return remove_accents( strtolower($term) );
   }
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ else
  */
 function str2url($str)
 {
-  $str = $safe = transliterate($str);
+  $str = $safe = pwg_transliterate($str);
   $str = preg_replace('/[^\x80-\xffa-z0-9_\s\'\:\/\[\],-]/','',$str);
   $str = preg_replace('/[\s\'\:\/\[\],-]+/',' ',trim($str));
   $res = str_replace(' ','_',$str);
diff --git a/include/functions_html.inc.php b/include/functions_html.inc.php
index 624cf695f..5a1c77856 100644
--- a/include/functions_html.inc.php
+++ b/include/functions_html.inc.php
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ function tag_alpha_compare($a, $b)
   {
     if (!isset($cache[__FUNCTION__][ $tag['name'] ]))
     {
-      $cache[__FUNCTION__][ $tag['name'] ] = transliterate($tag['name']);
+      $cache[__FUNCTION__][ $tag['name'] ] = pwg_transliterate($tag['name']);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/tags.php b/tags.php
index b781830af..4c8332a86 100644
--- a/tags.php
+++ b/tags.php
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ if ($page['display_mode'] == 'letters') {
 
   foreach ($tags as $tag)
   {
-    $tag_letter = mb_strtoupper(mb_substr(transliterate($tag['name']), 0, 1, PWG_CHARSET), PWG_CHARSET);
+    $tag_letter = mb_strtoupper(mb_substr(pwg_transliterate($tag['name']), 0, 1, PWG_CHARSET), PWG_CHARSET);
 
     if ($current_tag_idx==0) {
       $current_letter = $tag_letter;