Removing diacritic characters

[senyo]

I found this script that replaces diacritics, but if I use a string instead of text it replaces most of the characters but two of them still show.

$title = "ţ,ă,â,ş,î,Ţ,Ă,Â,Ş,Î";
$search = explode(",","ţ,ă,â,ş,î,Ţ,Ă,Â,Ş,Î");
$replace =explode(",","t,a,a,s,i,T,A,A,S,I");
$urlTitle = str_replace($search, $replace, $title);

 

If $title = $str; â and î don't get replaced, but if $title = "ţ,ă,â,ş,î,Ţ,Ă,Â,Ş,Î"; they get replaced

[senyo]

I think that is a problem with the utf-8 character encoder

 

$new=mb_convert_encoding($str,"HTML-ENTITIES","utf-8");

 

because if $str= "ţ,ă,â,ş,î,Ţ,Ă,Â,Ş,Î"; all the characters get replaced

[lemmin]

Those characters not getting replaced are probably not in your list. They might look the same, but could still be different code values. Try copying and pasting them into the list with respective replacements.

[senyo]

they are the same characters, this is strange

[lemmin]

What editor are you using? It might be changing your characters. You might need to use the codes to detect them.