replace striing éèêà

Can someone show me how to get rid of international characters in $string? Is there a function already made? You cannot use accented characters in a name reference : <a name="montréal">. I guess this below is a start. Is there a better way? John http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php $string = "àâéèç"; |$find = array("à", "â", "é", "è", "ç"); ||$||replacewith|| = array("a", "a", "e", "e", "c");|| ||||$onlyconsonants = str_replace($vowels, $replacewith, $string); |