Regex to ignore accents? PHP

Question

Is there anyway to make a Regex that ignores accents?

For example:

preg_replace(\"/$word/i\", \"$word\", $str);

Answer 1

Java and Jávã are different words, there's no native support in regex for removing accents, but you can include all possible combinations of characters with or without accents that you want to replace in your regex.

Like preg_replace("/java|Jávã|jáva|javã/i", "$word", $str);.

Good luck!