I will give the example from Turkish, for example "şğüı" becomes "sgui"
I'm sure each language has it's own conversion methods, sometimes a character might be converted to multiple ASCII characters, like "alpha"/"phi" etc.
I'm wondering whether there is a library/method that achieves this conversion
World's simplest ascii tool. A simple browser-based utility that converts Unicode characters to ASCII characters. Just paste your Unicode text in the input area and you will instantly get ASCII text in the output area.
Unicode is a superset of ASCII, and the numbers 0–127 have the same meaning in ASCII as they have in Unicode. For example, the number 65 means "Latin capital 'A'".
Unicode is the universal character encoding used to process, store and facilitate the interchange of text data in any language while ASCII is used for the representation of text such as symbols, letters, digits, etc.
What you are asking is called transliteration.
Try the Unidecode library.
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