How to convert 'ö' to 'oe' or 'o' (or other similar things) in a string?

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Martin Schöön <martin.schoon at gmail.com>:
> Related anecdote from Phoenix AZ. By now you have noticed my family
> name: Schöön. On airline tickets and boarding passes in the U.S. it
> gets spelled Schoeoen.

Do Swedes do that German thing, too? If you have to write Finnish
without ä and ö, you simply leave out the dots. (On the other hand, if
you need š or ž and don't have them, you replace them with sh and zh.)


Marko