The PHP Manual iconv Intro has a warning: Note that the iconv function on some systems may not work as you expect. In such case, it'd be a good i...

This worked for me for French characters. $str = utf8_encode($str); $str = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);

An alternative: function replaceAccents($str) { $search = explode(",","ç,æ,œ,á,é,í,ó,ú,à,è,ì,ò,ù,ä,ë,ï,ö,ü,ÿ,â,ê,î,ô,û,å,ø,Ø,Å,Á,À,Â,Ä,È,É,...

Here is the wordpress way: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/remove_accents You can copy the remove_accents() function and implement to...

What worked for me in this instance is using utf8_encode on the string and then using strtr() function after encoding it. ie. $normalizeChars = arr...

Here's what helped me. It's important to set locale to en_US and not your real locale. $curLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, 0); //gets current locale set...

In laravel you can simply use str_slug($accentedPhrase) and if you care about dash (-) that this method substitute with space you can use str_re...

Just putting here as an alternative (a bit more complex in nature), wordpress uses this function for accent removal. Made some changes below to mak...

I tried with this: $cadena = "ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ ßàáâãäåæçèéêëEËËËìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûýýþÿŔŕ"; $cadena = iconv('UTF-8','ASCII//TRANSLI...