[PHP] Re: Replacing accented characters?
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:55:46 -0600, Skip Evans wrote: >I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented >characters, like e and u with those two little dots above >them, with the regular e and u characters. $newText = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $text); But ensure you have set your locale properly. http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php -- Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia "All we are saying Is give peas a chance" - SeedSavers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: Replacing accented characters?
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 10:25 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:55:46 -0600, Skip Evans wrote: > > >I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented > >characters, like e and u with those two little dots above > >them, with the regular e and u characters. > > $newText = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $text); > > But ensure you have set your locale properly. > > http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php > -- > Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia > "All we are saying > Is give peas a chance" - SeedSavers > Don't forget that changing some characters can actually change the words and meanings of words. While an ë might look like and e, it's actually a completely different character, with a different pronunciation to go with it. Is there some particular web service you're using that doesn't support utf8 character sets? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Re: Replacing accented characters?
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:38:42 +, Ashley Sheridan wrote: >Don't forget that changing some characters can actually change the words >and meanings of words. While an ë might look like and e, it's actually a >completely different character, with a different pronunciation to go >with it. [...] True. But for the purposes of "cleaning up" URLs (not I18N friendly, but practical on Anglo-centric websites) it has its uses. -- Ross McKay, Toronto, NSW Australia "Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware" - George Monbiot -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php