2008/5/12 Yannick Warnier <ywarnier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:> 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 asUTF-8, which supports all the accents in all the languages, and evennon-latin languages. You mention Arabic, which does not use accentedlatin characters (Maybe you are thinking of Turkish, Ubek or Tadjic).UTF-8 supports Arabic, Russian, Greek, Latin including modifiedaccented letters, and almost everything else save CJK. What is your end goal? Why are you removing the accents? Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.comhttp://gibberish.co.ilא-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?
