diff --git a/coding/transliteration.cpp b/coding/transliteration.cpp
index fc3939d524..5da3b1b9f5 100644
--- a/coding/transliteration.cpp
+++ b/coding/transliteration.cpp
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ void Transliteration::SetMode(Transliteration::Mode mode)
 
 bool Transliteration::Transliterate(std::string transliteratorId, UnicodeString & ustr) const
 {
+  CHECK(m_inited, ());
   CHECK(!transliteratorId.empty(), (transliteratorId));
 
   auto it = m_transliterators.find(transliteratorId);
@@ -127,9 +128,10 @@ bool Transliteration::Transliterate(std::string transliteratorId, UnicodeString
   return true;
 }
 
-bool Transliteration::Transliterate(std::string const & str, std::string transliteratorId,
-                                    std::string & out) const
+bool Transliteration::TransliterateForce(std::string const & str, std::string const & transliteratorId,
+                                         std::string & out) const
 {
+  CHECK(m_inited, ());
   UnicodeString ustr(str.c_str());
   auto const res = Transliterate(transliteratorId, ustr);
   if (res)
@@ -140,6 +142,7 @@ bool Transliteration::Transliterate(std::string const & str, std::string transli
 bool Transliteration::Transliterate(std::string const & str, int8_t langCode,
                                     std::string & out) const
 {
+  CHECK(m_inited, ());
   if (m_mode != Mode::Enabled)
     return false;
 
@@ -152,11 +155,7 @@ bool Transliteration::Transliterate(std::string const & str, int8_t langCode,
 
   UnicodeString ustr(str.c_str());
   for (auto transliteratorId : transliteratorsIds)
-  {
-    if (!Transliterate(transliteratorId, ustr))
-      continue;
-
-  }
+    Transliterate(transliteratorId, ustr);
 
   if (ustr.isEmpty())
     return false;
diff --git a/coding/transliteration.hpp b/coding/transliteration.hpp
index e2c1e73fef..b0ede62cc6 100644
--- a/coding/transliteration.hpp
+++ b/coding/transliteration.hpp
@@ -28,10 +28,14 @@ public:
   void Init(std::string const & icuDataDir);
 
   void SetMode(Mode mode);
-  bool Transliterate(std::string const & str, std::string transliteratorId,
-                     std::string & out) const;
+  // Transliterates |str| with transliterators set for |langCode| in StringUtf8Multilang
+  // if mode is set to Enabled.
   bool Transliterate(std::string const & str, int8_t langCode, std::string & out) const;
 
+  // Transliterates |str| with |transliteratorId|, ignores mode.
+  bool TransliterateForce(std::string const & str, std::string const & transliteratorId,
+                          std::string & out) const;
+
 private:
   struct TransliteratorInfo;
 
diff --git a/indexer/search_string_utils.cpp b/indexer/search_string_utils.cpp
index c2ef88f840..eb21f42d2c 100644
--- a/indexer/search_string_utils.cpp
+++ b/indexer/search_string_utils.cpp
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ void TransliterateHiraganaToKatakana(UniString & s)
 
   InitTransliterationInstanceWithDefaultDirs();
   string out;
-  if (Transliteration::Instance().Transliterate(strings::ToUtf8(s), "Hiragana-Katakana", out))
+  if (Transliteration::Instance().TransliterateForce(strings::ToUtf8(s), "Hiragana-Katakana", out))
     s = MakeUniString(out);
 }
 }  // namespace