Replace diacritic characters with "equivalent" ASCII in PHP?

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Published on 2010-04-16T15:20:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 15:23 UTC
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Related questions:

  1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2653739/how-to-replace-characters-in-a-java-string
  2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2393887/how-to-replace-special-characters-with-their-equivalent-such-as-a-for-a

As in the questions above, I'm looking for a reliable, robust way to reduce any unicode character to near-equivalent ASCII using PHP. I really want to avoid rolling my own look up table.

For example (stolen from 1st referenced question): Gracišce becomes Gracisce

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