[SOLVED] Spéciál Charactêrs?

[cahamilton]

Does anyone know of a function or script that would help me convert special characters such as ê and á to normal characters (e and a)? Rather than str_replace'ing them all, is there a function I can just wrap around my variable to escape and convert all the misc characters?

[premiso]

I believe you would have to setup a str_replace have an array of special characters then another array of their counter parts (the indexes must match for what you want replaced).

 

I do not know of any function that will do it, but you may be able to find one via google that someone else had made.

[cahamilton]

Aha, thanks for your help. Just been pointed in the right direction from one of my friends. Anyone that's interested, this has worked for me:

 

<?php
function normaliza ($string){
    $a = 'ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞ
ßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûýýþÿŔŕ';
    $b = 'aaaaaaaceeeeiiiidnoooooouuuuy
bsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiidnoooooouuuyybyRr';
    $string = utf8_decode($string);    
    $string = strtr($string, utf8_decode($a), $b);
    $string = strtolower($string);
    return utf8_encode($string);
}
?>

 

from here: http://uk.php.net/strtr

 

Cheers premiso