Convert (NOT TRANSLATE) Farsi letters to English letters like Google Translate in PHP

Question

I want to convert Farsi letters to English letters in PHP and I don't want to translate them. In Farsi we call it Finglish or Pinglish as you can see here :

سلام -> Salam
علی -> Ali

and so on, I searched the web but didn't find any useful API to use. Any idea?

Answer 1

What you're describing is called transliteration or Romanization. You might want to try using Transliterator::transliterate, which uses ICU transliteration.