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codeinc/strip-accents
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A PHP library to remove accents and diacritics from strings

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Strip Accents
=============

[](#strip-accents)

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A PHP library to remove accents and diacritics from strings.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require codeinc/strip-accents
```

Requires PHP 8.2 or later with the `mbstring` extension.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Strip accents

[](#strip-accents-1)

```
use CodeInc\StripAccents\StripAccents;

echo StripAccents::strip("C'est une super chaîne de caractères avec beaucoup d'accents");
// "C'est une super chaine de caracteres avec beaucoup d'accents"

echo StripAccents::strip("ÀÁÂÃÄÅÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜÝàáâãäåçèéêëìíîïðòóôõöùúûüýÿ");
// "AAAAAACEEEEIIIIOOOOOUUUUYaaaaaaceeeeiiiieooooouuuuyy"
```

### Strip accents and non-printable characters

[](#strip-accents-and-non-printable-characters)

```
use CodeInc\StripAccents\StripAccents;

echo StripAccents::stripNonPrint("ABC ÀÈÝ 是我这");
// "ABC AEY "

echo StripAccents::stripNonPrint("ABC ÀÈÝ 是我这", replaceWith: "-");
// "ABC AEY ---------" (each multibyte character is replaced per-byte)
```

### Custom encoding

[](#custom-encoding)

Both methods accept an encoding parameter (any encoding supported by `htmlentities()`):

```
echo StripAccents::strip("A strïng with àccénts", encoding: "iso-8859-1");
```

License
-------

[](#license)

This library is published under the MIT license (see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file).

###  Health Score

57

—

FairBetter than 98% of packages

Maintenance77

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity41

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity79

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1477 days

Total

3

Last Release

124d ago

Major Versions

1.1.0 → 2.0.02026-04-15

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=7.1

2.0.0PHP >=8.2

### Community

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###  Code Quality

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