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<?php $matrix = [ 'ā' => 'a', 'ē' => 'e', 'ī' => 'i', 'ū' => 'u', 'š' => 's', 'ģ' => 'g', 'ķ' => 'k', 'ļ' => 'l', 'ž' => 'z', 'č' => 'c', 'ņ' => 'n', ]; $string = 'āāa'; $string = iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $string ); $string = strtr($string, $matrix); var_dump($string);

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