str_replace Not Matching Some Characters

[Rykin]

I am using str_replace() to clean up some data I am getting from another source and it is working just fine in some instances but not at all in others. For instance it isn't replacing … or ‘ or ’ or a number of other characters.

 

I am feeding str_replace two arrays, one with the characters/strings to replace and another with the characters/strings to replace them with. Any ideas why it would be replacing some characters just fine but not others?

[JAY6390]

It sounds like it's a problem with multibyte strings. Take a look here

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1451144/php-multi-byte-str-replace

[Rykin]

Tried using that mb_str_replace function from that thread but it just returned a bunch of warnings and didn't work. Sounds like this is an issue with str_replace though so I guess I will just write a function that uses preg_replace for all the strings/characters that str_replace has issues with.

[devofash]

Try using preg_replace instead.