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

another one for you function removeaccents($string) { return strtr($string, "SOZsozY¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ", "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy"); } Best Wishes & Happy New Year Paul Roberts mail@paul-roberts.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian M. Evans" <ianevans@digitalhit.com> To: "Ernest E Vogelsinger" <ernest@vogelsinger.at>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 6:41 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Converting accented characters or numeric equivalents to non-accented Ernest E. Vogelsinger suggested: >$chars_in = array('Á',''á','É','é'); // you >get it >$chars_out = array('A','a','E','e'); // this too >preg_replace($chars_in, $chars_out, $string_to_parse); I initially got a 'no ending delimiter' error but after adding /'s to the $chars_in it was just what the doctor ordered. I'm actually a little surprised that there isn't a built-in function, say, strip_accent(). I'd assume a lot of people would need this at some time or another. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php