Removing accents on both unicode and iso format

[Sleidia]

Hello,

I need to edit my function so that it can
work also when special characters are submitted
on unicode format.

Any idea on how I should do that?

The changes I've done below don't work at all

function hd_dir_safe($string) {

$string = strtr($string, 
"!#$%&'()*+,_./:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}~", 
"                              "
);

    if ($_SESSION["site_all"]["charmode"] == "UTF-8") {
    
    // this doesn't work when the site content is in UTF-8 format
    $string = strtr($string, 
    utf8_encode("ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÈÉÊËèéêëÌÍÎÏìíîïÒÓÔÕÖòóôõöÙÚÛÜùúûüÑñ"), 
    "aaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiioooooooooouuuuuuuunn"
    );
    
    } else {
    
    This works when the site content is in ISO format
    $string = strtr($string, 
    "ÀÁÂÃÄÅàáâãäåÈÉÊËèéêëÌÍÎÏìíîïÒÓÔÕÖòóôõöÙÚÛÜùúûüÑñ", 
    "aaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiioooooooooouuuuuuuunn"
    );
    
    }


//$string = strtolower($string);
$string = str_replace(" ", "", $string);
$string = str_replace("\"", "", $string);
$string = trim($string);

return $string;

}

Note : the PHP code is in ANSI format (not UTF-8) and
I would like to keep it this way.

Many thanks!

 

[Sleidia]

Might be important to add that, with my function above, a UTF-8 string "aéro" is converted into "anoro" instead of "aero".

How can I solve that?

 

[Sleidia]

OK, I've found a solution here :

http://www.weirdog.com/blog/php/supprimer-les-accents-des-caracteres-accentues-php.html

function wd_remove_accents($str, $charset='utf-8')
{
    $str = htmlentities($str, ENT_NOQUOTES, $charset);
    
    $str = preg_replace('#\&([A-za-z])(?:acute|cedil|circ|grave|ring|tilde|uml)\;#', '\1', $str);
    $str = preg_replace('#\&([A-za-z]{2})(?:lig)\;#', '\1', $str); // pour les ligatures e.g. 'œ'
    $str = preg_replace('#\&[^;]+\;#', '', $str); // supprime les autres caractères
    
    return $str;
}

 

[jpadie]

would this also work?

$text = iconv('UTF-8', 'US-ASCII//TRANSLIT', $text);