Turn this package into a polyfill for transliterator_transliterate()

[nicolas-grekas]

Hi there!

In case you missed it, I'm working on abandoning patchwork/utf8 in favor of symfony/symfony#33553 In this PR, I'm using transliterator_transliterate() to implement UTF-8 to ASCII transliterations (see AbstractUnicodeString::ascii()). But when the intl extension is not installed, I just skip the call and fallback to NFKC + maps + iconv.

It would be super cool if we could polyfill this function from intl (a subset of its behavior at least). This package is the closest I know. Would you consider porting it to https://github.com/symfony/polyfill/tree/master/src/Intl?

[GrahamCampbell]

Interesting. This package is actually brand new, extracted from the Stringy and portable-utf8 packages, and was created, at least in part, by my desire to have Laravel 7 start using this package's ascii conversion: voku/Stringy#20, laravel/framework#29947.

[voku]

@nicolas-grekas interesting package and what a loop :) https://github.com/nicolas-grekas/symfony/blob/string-component/src/Symfony/Component/String/Utf8String.php#L99 ... and yes I can / will try to use this library as polyfill.