2008/5/12 Yannick Warnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I've been trying to find something nice to transform an accentuated > string into a non-accentuated string. Obviously, I'm mostly playing > inside the European languages, but any method that could transform > arabic or asian characters to plain non-accentuated characters would be > perfect. > > I have found a number of solutions, ranging from str_replace() for every > known accentuated character to strtr() to a preg_replace() of a > conversion of the string to html characters then removing the "&" and > the "alteration" string (acute, grave, circ, ...). > > I must say the last one seems to work better because it's less affected > by charset changes, but it still seems awfully slow to me and I would > like to know if there is any function that exists that could do that for > me? > > Yannick >
Why are you removing the accents? Why not store/process the data as UTF-8, which supports all the accents in all the languages, and even non-latin languages. You mention Arabic, which does not use accented latin characters (Maybe you are thinking of Turkish, Ubek or Tadjic). UTF-8 supports Arabic, Russian, Greek, Latin including modified accented letters, and almost everything else save CJK. What is your end goal? Why are you removing the accents? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
