note 75566 added to function.str-replace

I found that having UTF-8 strings in as argument didnt work for me using heavyraptors function. Adding UTF-8 as argument on htmlentities fixed the problem. cheers, tim at hysniu.com <?php function replace_accents($str) { $str = htmlentities($str, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8"); $str = preg_replace( '/&([a-zA-Z])(uml|acute|grave|circ|tilde);/', '$1',$str); return html_entity_decode($str); } ?> ---- Server IP: 66.207.199.35 Probable Submitter: 209.52.149.157 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/75566 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75566/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75566/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75566/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75566/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75566/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75566/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/75566 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/75566 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php