note 51262 deleted from function.str-replace by felipe

Note Submitter: joaquin at metaltoad dot com ---- This is an another accent remover which converts foreign characters to their English equivilent. It converts any character's to their HTML value and then uses preg_replace to find the desired value. The function is based on a earlier entry: replace_accents. function remove_accents( $string ) { $string = htmlentities($string); return preg_replace("/&([a-z])[a-z]+;/i","$1",$string); } example: $string = "êéçýCÉÇÀ"; echo remove_accents( $string ); // will output: eecyCECA