Zend has some kind of transliteration?

Question

I'm like 1 day new to Zend and i ran into my first problem.
It seems i can't find anything in google or documentation about string transliteration.

I need to turn all sort of characters (ę, ų ...) to english looking ones.

How you do that in Zend?

Take a look at http://www.http://php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php — vascowhite, Dec 20 '11 at 03:30
Use iconv http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158241/php-replace-umlauts-with-closest-7-bit-ascii-equivalent-in-an-utf-8-string instead — akond, Dec 20 '11 at 07:03
@akond for iconv to work i need to change locale with setlocale(), how that possibly would impact on other code in zend? — arma, Dec 20 '11 at 10:19
You could save current locale, apply a new one, and after the iconv () is done, resort to the original one. — akond, Dec 20 '11 at 15:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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Based on link provided by akond i resolved my issue:

First get current locale and store it:
$orginial_locale = setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 0);

After set locale to one you desire:
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US.UTF-8');

Then apply iconv to string:
iconv("utf-8", "ascii//TRANSLIT", $input);

And finaly restore back to original locale:
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, $orginial_locale);

You should adjust setlocale category based on your needs see setlocale documentation for information on categories.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered Dec 20 '11 at 18:19

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Unknows characters are converted to question marks. – ram4nd Jan 07 '16 at 13:32

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