/** * Transliterates characters to their ASCII equivalents. * $language specifies a priority for a specific language. * The latter is useful if languages have different rules for the same character. * * @param String $text * @param String $language * @param boolean $asciiOnlyForLanguage set to "true" if you only want to convert the language-maps * * @param string $substChr * * @return string */ public static function downcode($text, $language = 'de', $asciiOnlyForLanguage = false, $substChr = '') { self::init($language); $text = UTF8::urldecode($text); $searchArray = array(); $replaceArray = array(); if (preg_match_all(self::$regex, $text, $matches)) { $matchesCounter = count($matches[0]); for ($i = 0; $i < $matchesCounter; $i++) { $char = $matches[0][$i]; if (isset(self::$map[$char])) { $searchArray[] = $char; $replaceArray[] = self::$map[$char]; } } } $text = str_replace($searchArray, $replaceArray, $text); // convert everything into ASCII if ($asciiOnlyForLanguage === true) { return (string) $text; } else { return UTF8::to_ascii($text, $substChr); } }
/** * Returns an ASCII version of the string. A set of non-ASCII characters are * replaced with their closest ASCII counterparts, and the rest are removed * unless instructed otherwise. * * @param $strict [optional] <p>Use "transliterator_transliterate()" from PHP-Intl | WARNING: bad performance</p> * * @return Stringy Object whose $str contains only ASCII characters */ public function toAscii($strict = false) { $str = UTF8::to_ascii($this->str, '?', $strict); return static::create($str, $this->encoding); }