Re: [PHP] Replacing accented characters by non-accented characters

oops wrong way round
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', 'français');

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM, James Dempster <[email protected]> wrote:

> maybe try iconv (http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php)
> e.g.
>
> echo iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8//TRANSLIT', 'français');
>
> --
> /James
>
>
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Yannick Warnier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've been trying to find something nice to transform an accentuated
> > string into a non-accentuated string. Obviously, I'm mostly playing
> > inside the European languages, but any method that could transform
> > arabic or asian characters to plain non-accentuated characters would be
> > perfect.
> >
> > I have found a number of solutions, ranging from str_replace() for every
> > known accentuated character to strtr() to a preg_replace() of a
> > conversion of the string to html characters then removing the "&" and
> > the "alteration" string (acute, grave, circ, ...).
> >
> > I must say the last one seems to work better because it's less affected
> > by charset changes, but it still seems awfully slow to me and I would
> > like to know if there is any function that exists that could do that for
> > me?
> >
> > Yannick
> >
> >
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