How to turn to US characters
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158241/php-replace-umlauts-with-closest-7-bit-ascii-equivalent-in-an-utf-8-string">PHP: Replace umlauts with closest 7-bit ASCII equivalent in an UTF-8 string</a>  </p>
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<p>I need to change strings that have accents E.G: Casá to become Casa. Is there an easy way to do it with PHP? Thanks</p>
