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Are there any solutions that will convert all foreign characters to A-z equivalents? I have searched extensively on Google and could not find a solution or even a list of characters and equivalents. The reason is I want to display A-z only URLs, plus plenty of other trip ups when dealing with these characters.

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You can use iconv, which has a special transliteration encoding.

When the string "//TRANSLIT" is appended to tocode, transliteration is activated. This means that when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several characters that look similar to the original character.

-- http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv_open.3.html

See here for a complete example that matches your use case.

Wednesday, October 5, 2022
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The ids that Transliterator::listIDs() are the "basic ids". The example you gave is a "compound id". You can see the ICU docs on this.

You can also create your own rules with Transliterator::createFromRules().

You can take a look at the prefefined rules:

<?php
$a = new ResourceBundle(NULL, sprintf('icudt%dl-translit', INTL_ICU_VERSION), true);

foreach ($a['RuleBasedTransliteratorIDs'] as $name => $v) {
    $file = @$v['file'];
    if (!$file) {
        $file = $v['internal'];
        echo $name, " (direction $file[direction]; internal)n";
    } else { 
        echo $name, " (direction: $file[direction])n";
        echo $file['resource'];
    }
    echo "n--------------n";
}

After formatting, the result looks like this.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022
 
zevan
 
4

Try following code

$textcyr="??????? ? ????????";
        $textlat="I pone dotuk raboti!";
        $cyr = ['?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?', '?','?','?', '?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?', '?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?', '?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?', '?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?','?'
        ];
        $lat = ['Lj', 'Nj', 'Dž', 'dž', 'š', '?', '?', '?', 'ž', 'lj', 'nj', 'Š', '?', '?', '?', 'Ž','C','c', 'a','b','v','g','d','e','io','zh','z','i','y','k','l','m','n','o','p', 'r','s','t','u','f','h','ts','ch','sh','sht','a','i','y','e','yu','ya', 'A','B','V','G','D','E','Io','Zh','Z','I','Y','K','L','M','N','O','P', 'R','S','T','U','F','H','Ts','Ch','Sh','Sht','A','I','Y','e','Yu','Ya'
        ];
        $textcyr = str_replace($cyr, $lat, $textcyr);
        $textlat = str_replace($lat, $cyr, $textlat);
        echo("$textcyr $textlat");
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
 
4

Never used any of those, but they look interesting..

Take a look at Gearman as well.. more overhead in systems like these but you get other cool stuff :) Guess it depends on your needs ..

Friday, November 11, 2022
 
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