I'm wondering how it's possible to 'translate' characters in UTF-8 to the closest ASCII equivalent using Javascript, just like Iconv doest in PHP.
Example:
ü becomes u
ó becomes o
I'd rather not use a replace, because a) it requires a complete set of characters, which is a lot of work and b) i'd would be hard to get a complete set of characters, and i'll never be certain if i'm missing one or two.
The easiest way I've found:
var str = "üó";
var combining = /[\u0300-\u036F]/g;
console.log(str.normalize('NFKD').replace(combining, ''));
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/normalize