Replace Polish characteres with standard ascii equivalent

Question

Basically, I have a huge amount of files and many of them contain polish letters like 'ł, ż, ź, ó, ń' etc. in their filename.

What I want to reach is somehow change this polish letter to standard ascii character. (So for example ż => z, ń => n).

The files are located on the server with Linux Debian Squeezee.

What should I use and how to achieve the final effect?

Answer 1

You put a PHP tag to your question, so my answer will consider that.

There is a question similiar to yours.

Convert national chars into their latin equivalents in PHP

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Basically

Use Normalizer PHP extension.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.normalizer.php

<?php
    $string = 'ł ż ź ó ń';
    echo Normalizer::normalize($string);
?>