[JustinVx]

Well it’s different as in this case it’s translated from a Cyrillic alphabet. Also, I would be surprised to read Köln in English as an English name exists for the city: Cologne.

[vkazanov]

This is not transliteration. It would be "pyotr" then. This is just using a German letter in an English text based on a purely visual similarity to a Russian letter.

This is wrong on so many levels...

[ul5255]

I do not know where the inspiration cam from but that e with inverted commas is not a German letter

[vkazanov]

I have to admit: no idea as well.

[usrnm]

So? I'm going to transliterate stuff from Russian with ё from now on, it just looks great. A language is whatever we want it to be, after all

[Andrew_nenakhov]

You'll hardly achieve anything by it, besides really breaking spellchecking software.

[iakov]

And annoying the language speakers. Pёtr is painful to read. Peter, Pyotr, Peter, Пётр, pick any, but don't mix and match please!

[082349872349872]

What about the other way? Would it be legit to transliterate the english nickname Pete as Пить?

Много городов у вас в России))

[iakov]

That is how it is done when translating literature, right? Pete becomes Пит - just like you are pronouncing Pete.