Convert Special Characters (other language) to English in PHP

Question

Is there a function that coverts special characters to their english equivalents. For Eg. Convert é to e. Etc...

Answer 1

The function you are after is iconv() - from the user notes, this seems to be what you want to do: characters transliteration

Answer 2

You should use this one and it will works:

setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'nl_BE.utf8');
$string = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);

I've tested it a lot of accentuated characters