Posted by Rene Brehmer on 09/28/10 11:20

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

> On 6/29/05, Rene Brehmer <plasticbunny@metalbunny.net> 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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