Re: Re: Removing nonlatin characters

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Documented research indicate that on Fri, 1 Jul 2005 13:58:23 +0300, Dotan
Cohen wrote:

> On 6/29/05, Rene Brehmer <plasticbunny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I think you mean something like this:
> 
> function stripAccents($string) {
>   $returnString = strtr($string,
>       'àáâãäçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöšùúûüýÀÁÂÃÄÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖŠÙÚÛÜÝ',
> 'aaaaaceeeeiiiinooooosuuuuyAAAAACEEEEIIIINOOOOOSUUUUY');
>   $returnString =
> str_replace('æ','ae',str_replace('Æ','AE',$returnString));
>   $returnString =
> str_replace('ø','oe',str_replace('Ø','OE',$returnString));
>   $returnString = str_replace('ß','ss',$returnString);
>   return $returnString;
> }
> 
> This function is part using code once posted on this list, part my own
> creation.
>
>Thank you Rene. Does this approach have any special advantages over
>recode_string?

Totally forgot ... there is one advantage that you can control what the
characters are replaced with ... but I dunno if recode_string does as good
a job ...

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