PHONIX is a phonetic retrieval technique developed for use with the URICA library system. It has been successfully installed at a number of URICA sites in Southern Africa. PHONIX has been found to be particularly useful when applied to personal names, specifically author surnames in the context of a library system. Certain names such as Anton Chekov have been variously transliterated as TSJECHOF, TSJECHOW, TJEKHOW, CHEKHOV, CHEKHOW etc., in the multi‐lingual environment of libraries in Southern Africa. PHONIX complements the more conventional information retrieval techniques used by URICA, and the algorithm used is explained as a simple, easy to apply, set of rules. This contribution follows on from a previous paper.