Hi,
Is anyone figured out an easy way to replace non-ascii chars in a UTF8 string with a translation table?
The problem is when the user enters a license plate number into an edit box, it can look same as the real number but written in Cyrillic characters. In Cyrillic alphabet there is many letters that look as Latin ones. When such a wrong number enters into the database, it can't be found easily.
The obvious way should be to replace all similar looking chars with Latin ones before processing, but I can't find a simple way of doing that.