How to Convert Special Chars to Standard Chars?

Question

I\'m looking for way to convert chars like āžšķūņrūķīš to azskunrukis. In other words, to replace ā with a, ž with z an

Answer 1

I'm not sure of any functions that do this directly, but there are some implementations of translation tables that do something like that in the comments on strtr's documentation page. They end up using a table that directly translates each character to its equivalent, i.e. "ž" => "z".