Good morning, I would like to remove diacritic from string like 'žluťoučký kůň' (UTF-8) and transform it into 'zlutoucky kun'. I have used function convert(); and SQL_ASCII as destination encoding. Converted string still contains diacritic: SELECT convert('žluťoučký kůň','UTF8','SQL_ASCII') array(1) { ["convert"]=> string(19) "žluťoučký kůň" } Thanks for your help. -- Jiri Nemec http://www.menea.cz/