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Special to plain characters

Hey guys,

I've been working on a project for the last couple of months and now I bumped into a problem I've been putting off.

I've got the word 'Agapé', with the nice small comma on the e. For short, a special character. Now I need to change this to the word 'agape' without loosing anything.

strtolower works perfect, but I'm stuck the with the special character. How do I change it to it's 'parent', the letter e?

Just use normal string functions to replace some characters (eg. àéîøü) with their equivalent ones (eg. aeiou).

Well, simple enough. I'll give it a go. Thanks mate.

I found and edited a function that does some of the work for me, either I wonder if I matched all the currently, most commonly used characters. Have a look;

PHP Code:


		
			
function tidyString($string){    
    
    $string = strtr($string, "ŠŒŽšœžŸ¥µÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýÿ", "SOZsozYYuAAAAAAACEEEEIIIIDNOOOOOOUUUUYsaaaaaaaceeeeiiiionoooooouuuuyy");    
    $string = preg_replace('#\b\%\d.(|\b)#u', '', $string);    
    $string = preg_replace('#\b\%\d.(|\b)#u', '+', $string);    
    $string = preg_replace('#\b\+\++(|\b)#u', '+', $string);
    
    return $string;

}