title: Replace diacritic characters with "equivalent" ASCII in PHP?
body: <p>Related questions:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2653739/how-to-replace-characters-in-a-java-string">How to replace characters in a java String?</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2393887/how-to-replace-special-characters-with-their-equivalent-such-as-a-for-a">How to replace special characters with their equivalent (such as &quot; &#225; &quot; for &quot; a&quot;) in C#?</a></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>As in the questions above, I'm looking for a reliable, robust way to reduce any unicode character to near-equivalent ASCII using PHP. I really want to avoid rolling my own look up table.</p>
  
  <p>For example (stolen from 1st referenced question): <code>Gračišće</code> becomes <code>Gracisce</code></p>