What is the best way to handle/remove, UTF-8's Right-to-left-override characters?

Question

There is a utf-8 character (HEX bytes E2 80 AE) that when correctly handled by utf-8 enabled systems will show the ascetically reversed chars, when displayed to the user. Common

Answer 1

Upon some further tests I added US-ASCII//TRANSLIT - UTF-8//IGNORE so to fix these types of strings without using regex you would use:

echo iconv('US-ASCII//TRANSLIT', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $evilString); //EvilFile.EXE

Hope this helps anyone in the future with this unique problem.