Re: Re: Replacing accented characters?

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 10:25 +1100, Ross McKay wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:55:46 -0600, Skip Evans wrote: > > >I'm looking for recommendations on how to replace accented > >characters, like e and u with those two little dots above > >them, with the regular e and u characters. > > $newText = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $text); > > But ensure you have set your locale properly. > > http://au.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php > -- > Ross McKay, Toronto NSW Australia > "All we are saying > Is give peas a chance" - SeedSavers > Don't forget that changing some characters can actually change the words and meanings of words. While an ë might look like and e, it's actually a completely different character, with a different pronunciation to go with it. Is there some particular web service you're using that doesn't support utf8 character sets? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk