Replace diacritic characters with “equivalent” ASCII in PHP?

Question

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Answer 1

My solution is to create two strings - first with not wanted letters and second with letters that will replace firsts.

$from = 'čšć';
$to   = 'csc';
$text = 'Gračišće';

$result = str_replace(str_split($from), str_split($to), $text);