- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$name = 'Daniël Renée François Bjørn in’t Veld';
$plain = iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII", $name);
$ignore = iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//IGNORE", $name);
$translit = iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT", $name);
var_dump($plain, $ignore, $translit);