diff --git a/lib/Tool/Transliteration.php b/lib/Tool/Transliteration.php
index 36f103329e9..86fd9c6a005 100644
--- a/lib/Tool/Transliteration.php
+++ b/lib/Tool/Transliteration.php
@@ -41,17 +41,9 @@ public static function toASCII($value, $language = null)
         }
 
         $value = self::_transliterationProcess($value, '~', $language);
-
+        $value = transliterator_transliterate('Any-Latin; Latin-ASCII; [^\u001F-\u007f] remove', $value);
         $value = trim($value);
 
-        // then use iconv
-        $result = iconv('utf-8', 'ASCII//IGNORE//TRANSLIT', $value);
-        if (empty($result)) {
-            // TRANSLIT doesn't work in musl's iconv, see #859.
-            $result = iconv('utf-8', 'ASCII//IGNORE', $value);
-        }
-        $value = $result;
-
         return $value;
     }