Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 281 Location: A'dam/Diemen, The Netherlands
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:38 pm Post subject: [solution][howto] Convert special characters to normal chars (é to e)
How to convert
testáén
to
testaen
?
Use the force ! And use WordPress functions ..
WordPress has this lovely function called remove_accents($string); to create a "slug" which is used to create seo_friendly urls.
I've attached the functions below.
Code:
/**
* Converts all accent characters to ASCII characters.
*
* If there are no accent characters, then the string given is just returned.
*
* @since 1.2.1
*
* @param string $string Text that might have accent characters
* @return string Filtered string with replaced "nice" characters.
*/
function remove_accents($string) {..}
It relies on:
Code:
/**
* Checks to see if a string is utf8 encoded.
*
* NOTE: This function checks for 5-Byte sequences, UTF8
* has Bytes Sequences with a maximum length of 4.
*
* @author bmorel at ssi dot fr (modified)
* @since 1.2.1
*
* @param string $str The string to be checked
* @return bool True if $str fits a UTF-8 model, false otherwise.
*/
function seems_utf8($str) {..}
ps: all credit goes to WordPress and bmorel for this one!
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