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Posted: **30 Mar 2016, 16:22**

I collected all specialchars aining a latin one in a table. This is useful in to ways:

Players can more easily "encrypt" their name, because they do not have to search for fitting specialchars
Programmers can implement a function to their software, which makes it possible to search for encrypted name. At the moment no one ever finds a map by a search function, if it mainly consists of specialchars. Using str_replace (which supports arrays), you can decrypt it into latin chars. E.g. my nickname "Î»sÎºÎ¼ÑÎ¹" which can't be found easily would turn into "askuri", which is what the seeker typed in. Some ideas for realising the backend: use strtolower(), str_replace(), levenshtein(). Right now I do not have a ready to use code snippet or library.

The table is in CSV accessable on http://maniacdn.net/askuri/latin-unicode/table.csv. Feel free to use this for continuus updating, it's a static link

Posted: **30 May 2017, 21:55**

Example, how to use it in PHP (why didn't I post this before?):

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<?php
// read the table (original is with ; separator, this function expects ,)
$array = array_map('str_getcsv', file('table.csv')); // reads csv into php array

$subject = "ÃÄ˜Ð¯Ð¯@"; // example input
foreach ($array as $row) { // do the same for every latin char
	$latin = array_shift($row); // first one is latin, following are any char we want to replace
	$subject = str_ireplace($row, $latin, $subject); // replace them case-insensitively
}

echo $subject;
?>

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