What is the most efficient way to remove accents from a string e.g. ÈâuÑ becomes Eaun?
Is there a simple, built in way that I’m missing or a regular expression?
What is the most efficient way to remove accents from a string e.g. ÈâuÑ
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What is the most efficient way to remove accents from a string e.g. ÈâuÑ becomes Eaun?
Is there a simple, built in way that I’m missing or a regular expression?
If you have iconv installed, try this (the example assumes your input string is in UTF-8):
(iconv is a library to convert between all kinds of encodings; it’s efficient and included with many PHP distributions by default. Most of all, it’s definitely easier and more error-proof than trying to roll your own solution (did you know that there’s a “Latin letter N with a curl”? Me neither.))