title: Is there an iconv with //TRANSLIT equivalent in java?
body: <p>Is there a way to achieve <strong>transliteration</strong> of characters between charsets in java? something similar to the unix command (or similar php function):</p>
  
  <pre><code>iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT &lt; some_doc.txt  &gt; new_doc.txt
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  <p>preferably operating on strings, not having anything to do with files</p>
  
  <p>I know you  can can change encodings with the <code>String</code> constructor, but that doesn't handle transliteration of characters that aren't in the resulting charset.</p>