Portable ASCII
A performance-optimized PHP library for ASCII string manipulation, transliteration, and slug generation without requiring mbstring or iconv extensions.
What is Portable ASCII?
Portable ASCII is a PHP library that provides a comprehensive set of ASCII string functions, including transliteration, slug generation, and character normalization. It enables developers to handle non-ASCII text in a portable, dependency-free manner, making it ideal for internationalization and text processing tasks.
PHP developers working on applications that require processing multilingual text, such as generating URL slugs from non-English strings, cleaning user input, or normalizing text for storage or display. It is particularly useful for projects needing to run in environments without extensions like mbstring or iconv.
Developers choose Portable ASCII because it is a self-contained, dependency-free solution that works without external PHP extensions, ensuring portability across diverse server environments. It offers language-specific transliteration for over 60 languages, optimized performance, and easy integration through static methods.
Overview
🔡 Portable ASCII library - performance optimized (ascii) string functions for PHP.
Use Cases
Best For
- Generating URL-friendly slugs from multilingual strings, such as converting 'Düsseldorf' to 'Duesseldorf' for German or 'Dusseldorf' for English.
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