Re: Converting accented characters or numeric equivalents to non-accented

Hi Ian M. Evans, On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:04:15 -0500, you wrote about "[PHP] Converting accented characters or numeric equivalents to non-accented" something that looked like this: >Does anyone have a quick PHP function for converting accented characters to >their non-accented forms? It would really help a lot with Amazon searches, >etc. Not sure about quick, but the only way I've found that works with 100% guarantee everytime is to take the string and check it character by character, and if the ascii value is > 128, simply replace it with the ascii value marker... something like this (untested): for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($string_to_parse); $i++) { $char = substr($string_to_parse, $i, 1); if (ord($char) > 128) { $output_string .= "&#".ord($char).";"; } else { $output_string .= $char; } } You may need to test for value 127 ... not sure if it starts on 0 or 1 that is... The above structure is what I use constantly to do this... HTH Rene -- Rene Brehmer This message was written on 100% recycled spam. Come see! My brand new site is now online! http://www.metalbunny.net