php is there a way to transfer Latin letters to english letters?

Question

is there a way to transfer Latin letters to english letters with php?

Such as: āáǎà transfer to a,

ēéěè transfer to <

Answer 1

Have a look at How to change diacritic characters to non-diacritic ones

Answer 2

iconv can usually do this for you:

iconv("utf-8", "ascii//TRANSLIT//IGNORE", $string);

Adjust source encoding to preference. The //TRANSLIT//IGNORE part tells iconv to transliterate (replace with "similar" characters) whatever it can and ignore (leave out or replace with "?", can't remember) what it can't.