How can PHP be used to automatically convert strange characters in a text to standard characters like ä,ü,ö,Ä,Ü,Ö?

To automatically convert strange characters in a text to standard characters like ä,ü,ö,Ä,Ü,Ö in PHP, you can use the `iconv()` function along with the `TRANSLIT` option. This function converts a string to the requested character encoding. By using `iconv()` with the `TRANSLIT` option, PHP will transliterate any strange characters into their closest ASCII equivalents. 

$text = "strange characters like ä,ü,ö,Ä,Ü,Ö";
$clean_text = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $text);

echo $clean_text;

Keywords

PHP character encoding mb_convert_encoding iconv text processing

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