find and replace É

[lindylex]

I am trying to do a string find and replace from some xml that I get from a server.

 

 

The character I am trying to find is É  if you can not see it’s chr(201) this is what I have tried with no success.

 

Attempt #1:

 

$patern [0]='/É/';

$patern[1] ='/W/';

$replacements[0] ='XXX';

$replacements[1] ='YYY';

 

echo preg_replace ($patern,$replacements,$finaldata);

 

Attempt #2:

 

strtr($finaldata, chr(201),"VVV");

 

Attempt #3:

 

strtr($finaldata, ‘É’,"VVV");

 

Encoding is encoding="UTF-8"

 

 

Thanks Lex

 

[effigy]

How is the file encoded?

[lindylex]

effigy it is  encoding="UTF-8". thanks.

[effigy]

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<pre>
<?php
### Create string with "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE."
echo $str = 'abc' . pack('C*', 0xc3, 0x89) . '123';
echo '<br>';
### Remove.
echo preg_replace('/\xc9/u', '', $str);
?>
</pre>

[lindylex]

Effigy It gives me this string instead of the E

 

abcÉ123

 

How do I find the equivalent '/\xc9/u' for the letter I want?  I have no idea how to use a regular expression for the E with the accent.

 

Lex

[effigy]

"É" is the UTF-8 encoding for "É." You can see this by going to this letter database, scrolling down to "Search in Unicode character names," entering "e with acute," and clicking "Submit Query." The "U00C9" that appears below the graphic of the character is its code point, and the UTF-8 is below that.

 

What browser are you using the for the example? I see:

 

abcÉ123

abc123

[lindylex]

effigy I am not seeing what you are seeing.  I tried this on Linux using Iceweasel and Windows I.E. 7 and Firefox.

 

I go to this website http://www.eki.ee/letter/

 

And enter the É and I do not see the same output you see.

 

I searched here.

 

“For my own convenience - this input form accepts (hex) utf8 encodings. It does not accept ranges and returns ? if the input is not valid.

Enter Unicode number in UTF-8 (e2 82 ac for Euro):

“ 

And I got nothing.

 

[lindylex]

effigy, how can I get this value '/\xc9/u' from that website?

 

Thanks, Lex

[effigy]

For my own convenience - this input form accepts (hex) utf8 encodings. It does not accept ranges and returns ? if the input is not valid.

Enter Unicode number in UTF-8 (e2 82 ac for Euro):

 

That's under "Search by Unicode number."

 

scrolling down to "Search in Unicode character names,"

 

 

[lindylex]

The Solution:

 

Effigy, thanks for your help.  I came up with a solution using some valuable information you provided. 

 

The process I used was go to this site http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

 

Then search for the character I need.  The xc8 in '/\xc8/u' is the hex value for the character I suppose.  But the two characters after the x seem to match the last two of the URL-encode.  Using this chart I got the information I needed to make the find and replace work.

 

function look_for_extended_characters ($the_string_to_convert){

 

$transition=preg_replace('/\xc8/u', 'È', $the_string_to_convert); //È  È YES

$transition=preg_replace('/\xc9/u', 'É', $transition); //É  É

$transition=preg_replace('/\xc3/u', 'Ã', $transition); //à Ã

$transition=preg_replace('/\xcf/u', 'Ï', $transition); //Ï  Ï

$transition=preg_replace('/\xef/u', 'ï', $transition); //ï  ï

$transition=preg_replace('/\xbf/u', '¿', $transition); //¿  ¿

$transition=preg_replace('/\xbd/u', '½', $transition); //½  ½

$transition=preg_replace('/\xd4/u', 'Ô', $transition); //Ô  Ô

$transition=preg_replace('/\xd6/u', 'Ö', $transition); //Ö  Ö

$transition=preg_replace('/\xc1/u', 'Á', $transition); //Á  Ö

$transition=preg_replace('/\xc4/u', 'Ä', $transition); //Ä  Ä

$transition=preg_replace('/\xc7/u', 'Ç', $transition); //Ç  Ç

$transition=preg_replace('/\xcc/u', 'Ì', $transition); //Ì  Ì

 

return $transition;

}

 

Thanks