Question

I am looking for a library or helper function in PHP which could change a given text (unicode) into a valid portable filename. How can I do that. Ideally it should include converting characters like à, á, â into a and thus retaining it readability.

This post: Turn a string into a valid filename? addresses this problem to some extent but handling unicode is what I am worried about. Is there a easy straightforward way I can solve this.

Answer 1

You could try something like this:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.utf8');
$brand_name = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $_GET['brand-name']);

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