At 02:31 PM 3/17/2002 +0100, andy wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I am wondering if it would be possible to replace all chars which are not
>inbetween [a-z] with a valid asccii coresponding to it. I have a db with a
>bunch of citynames and I would like to create valid filenames out of those.
>The prob is, that I do not know all special chars. For example there was
>one: ï which I did not know. So maybe there are a lot others similar like
>that.
>
>The point is, how could I create a valid filename out of those citynames
>which contains only the chars from a - z? I tryed erregrplc, but I do have
>to know the char for that.
I found this in the user contributed notes for the function strtr(). It looks
like what you need:
function removeaccents($string) {
return strtr($string,
"ŠŒŽšœžŸ¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ",
"SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");
}
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