Character mapping from WE8ISO8859P1 to US7ASCII

We are planning to implement a multilingual web application with an Oracle database with WE8ISO8859P1 or some 8859-X compatible character set to support Western European languages. We will collect name in local languages (coded in WE8ISO8859P1), i.e. German, French, etc. As a requirement, the name information also have to be forward to other application/system that only support English (coded in US7ASCII).
We are looking for a WE8ISO8859P1 to US7ASCII mapping. It is straightly a code to code mapping (128 - 255 to 0 - 127). Has anyone done this before.
Thanks,
Chi

The mapping from WE8ISO8859P1 to US7ASCII is not straight forward, Oracle will try to map each non-ASCII letter to it's base letter. For example the following characters:- @ , A , B and D will all map to the ASCII letter A when going from WE8ISO8859P1 to US7ASCII. You can view all the mapping information via the Oracle Locale Builder under the Tab 'Replacement Characters' for the character set US7ASCII.
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