# Changelog
  
  ### 1.6.1 (2021-01-24)
  
  - 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 (2021-01-24)
  
  - 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 "<br>" and no "
  "
  - 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)
    -> https://github.com/avian2/unidecode/
    
  ### 1.5.0 (2020-05-24)
  
  - merge ASCII transliterations from "avian2/unidecode" (python)
    -> https://github.com/avian2/unidecode/
  
  ### 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