php iconv translit for removing accents: not working as excepted?

Question

consider this simple code:

echo iconv(\'UTF-8\', \'ASCII//TRANSLIT\', \'è\');

it prints

 `e

instead of ju

Answer 1

It seem that it depend of the php version...

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TestCase #1

php -version

PHP 7.0.0RC8 (cli) (built: Nov 25 2015 12:36:50) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2015, by Zend Technologies

php -r "var_dump(iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'è'));"

string(2) "`e"

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TestCase #2

php -version

PHP 7.0.8-1~dotdeb+8.1 (cli) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.8-1~dotdeb+8.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

php -r "var_dump(iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'è'));"

string(1) "e"