public function toAscii($value)
    {
        if (is_array($value) || is_object($value)) {
            foreach ($value as $_key => &$_value) {
                $_value = $this->toAscii($_value);
            } // unset($_key, $_value);
            return $value;
        }
        if (!($string = (string) $value)) {
            return $string; // Nothing to do.
        }
        return (string) transliterator_transliterate('Any-Latin; Latin-ASCII', $string);
    }