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# Changelog
### 2.0.3 (2024-11-21)
* use modern phpdocs e.g. list or conditional-return annotations
### 2.0.2 (2024-11-21)
* small fix for PHP 8.4 (thanks to @gilbertoalbino)
### 2.0.1 (2022-03-08)
* "To people of Russia": There is a war in Ukraine right now. The forces of the Russian Federation are attacking civilians.
* optimize some phpdocs
### 2.0.0 (2022-01-24)
* prefer "Russian - Passport (2013), ICAO" instead of "Russian - GOST 7.79-2000(B)"
* fix "Ukrainian" char-mapping (thanks to @Andr1yk0)
* fix "Persian" char-mapping (thanks to @frost-cyber)
### 1.6.1 (2022-01-24)
* revert: prefer "Russian - Passport (2013), ICAO" instead of "Russian - GOST 7.79-2000(B)"
* revert: fix "Ukrainian" char-mapping (thanks to @Andr1yk0)
* revert: fix "Persian" char-mapping (thanks to @frost-cyber)
### 1.6.0 (2022-01-24)
* prefer "Russian - Passport (2013), ICAO" instead of "Russian - GOST 7.79-2000(B)"
* fix "Ukrainian" char-mapping (thanks to @Andr1yk0)
* fix "Persian" char-mapping (thanks to @frost-cyber)
* fix "ASCII::normalize\_whitespace()" -> "CARRIAGE RETURN" is more like "\
" and no "\n"
* add "ASCII::to\_ascii\_remap()" -> this method will return broken characters and is only for special cases
### 1.5.6 (2020-11-12)
* "ASCII::normalize\_whitespace()" -> can now also remove "control characters" if needed v2
### 1.5.5 (2020-11-12)
* fix "Greeklish" char-mapping (thanks @sebdesign)
* "ASCII::normalize\_whitespace()" -> can now also remove "control characters" if needed
### 1.5.4 (2020-11-08)
* add some missing replacements in U+23xx page (thanks @marcoffee)
* fix "Russian" char-mapping (thanks @ilyahoilik)
* running test with PHP 8.0 rc3
### 1.5.3 (2020-07-23)
* fix "Georgian" char-mapping (thanks @waska14)
### 1.5.2 (2020-06-16)
* add "Bengali" (bn) language support (thanks @eliyas5044)
* fix "Portuguese" char-mapping
* reduce the file size (removed extra comments from "avian2/unidecode")
### 1.5.1 (2020-05-26)
* fix merge ASCII transliterations from "avian2/unidecode" (python) ->
### 1.5.0 (2020-05-24)
* merge ASCII transliterations from "avian2/unidecode" (python) ->
### 1.4.11 (2020-05-23)
* "composer.json" -> remove "autoload-dev" stuff from "autoload"
* "voku/php-readme-helper" -> auto-generate the API documentation in the README
### 1.4.10 (2020-03-13)
* ASCII::to\_ascii() -> fix extra symbol handling in the regex
* ASCII::to\_ascii() -> fix for languages with multi-length-special-char (e.g. Greek -> 'ει' => 'i')
### 1.4.9 (2020-03-06)
* ASCII::to\_slugify() -> fix php warning from empty "separator"
### 1.4.8 (2020-02-06)
* small optimization for "ASCII::to\_ascii()" performance
### 1.4.7 (2020-01-27)
* fix possible wrong type from "getDataIfExists()" -> e.g. a bug reported where "/data/" was modified
* inline variables
* do not use "=== true" for "bool"-types
### 1.4.6 (2019-12-23)
* optimize "ASCII::to\_ascii()" performance
* add "armenian" chars
* add "ASCII:getAllLanguages()"
### 1.4.5 (2019-12-19)
* use "@psalm-pure" v2
### 1.4.4 (2019-12-19)
* use "@psalm-pure"
### 1.4.3 (2019-12-19)
* use "@psalm-immutable"
### 1.4.2 (2019-12-13)
* optimize the performance v2
* more fixes for non-ascii regex
### 1.4.1 (2019-12-13)
* fix regex for non-ascii
### 1.4.0 (2019-12-13)
* optimize the performance, via single char replacements
### 1.3.6 (2019-12-13)
* "ascii\_extras" -> convert the static content into ascii -> e.g.: instead of replacing "+" with "più" we use "piu" (Italian), because we want to use ascii anyway
### 1.3.5 (2019-11-11)
* fix "ASCII::remove\_invisible\_characters()" -> do not remove invisible encoded url strings by default
### 1.3.4 (2019-10-14)
* fix static cache for "ASCII::charsArrayWithOneLanguage"
### 1.3.3 (2019-10-14)
* fix "Turkish" mapping -> 'ä' -> 'a'
### 1.3.2 (2019-10-14)
* fix language parameter usage with e.g. "de\_DE"
* re-add missing "extra"-mapping chars
### 1.3.1 (2019-10-13)
* fix "ASCII::to\_slugify" -> remove unicode chars
* add more test for ascii chars in the mapping
* fix non ascii chars in the mapping
### 1.3.0 (2019-10-12)
* add transliteration "fr" (was supported before, but with chars from other languages)
* add transliteration "ru" - Passport (2013), ICAO
* add transliteration "ru" - GOST 7.79-2000(B)
* add transliteration "el" - greeklish
* add transliteration "zh"
* add transliteration "nl"
* add transliteration "it"
* add transliteration "mk"
* add transliteration "pt"
* add constants -> ASCII::\*LANGUAGE\_CODES
* add more special latin chars / (currency) symbols
* add simple tests for all supported languages
* optimize "Russian" to ASCII (via "translit.ru")
* optimize performance of string replacement
* optimize performance of array merging
* optimize phpdoc comments
* "ASCII::to\_transliterate" -> use "transliterator\_create" + static cache
* "ASCII::to\_ascii" -> fix "remove unsupported chars"
* "ASCII::to\_ascii" -> add some more special chars
* run/fix static analyse via "pslam" + "phpstan"
* auto fix code style via "php-cs-fixer"
* fix transliteration for "german"
* fix transliteration for "persian" (thanks @mardep)
* fix transliteration for "polish" (thanks @dariusz.drobisz)
* fix transliteration for "bulgarian" (thanks @mkosturkov)
* fix transliteration for "croatian" (thanks @ludifonovac)
* fix transliteration for "serbian" (thanks @ludifonovac)
* fix transliteration for "swedish" (thanks @nicholasruunu)
* fix transliteration for "france" (thanks @sharptsa)
* fix transliteration for "serbian" (thanks @nikolaposa)
* fix transliteration for "czech" (thanks @slepic)
### 1.2.3 (2019-09-10)
* fix language depending ASCII chars (the order matters)
### 1.2.2 (2019-09-10)
* fix bulgarian ASCII chars | thanks @bgphp
### 1.2.1 (2019-09-07)
* "charsArray()" -> add access to "ASCII::$ASCII\_MAPS\*""
### 1.2.0 (2019-09-07)
* "to\_slugify()" -> use the extra ascii array
### 1.1.0 (2019-09-07)
* add + split extra ascii replacements
### 1.0.0 (2019-09-05)
* initial commit
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