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Php function to convert special characters to acsii characters
19.05.17
function cleanString($text) { $utf8 = array( '/[áàâãªä]/u' => 'a', '/[ÁÀÂÃÄ]/u' => 'A', '/[ÍÌÎÏ]/u' => 'I', '/[íìîï]/u' => 'i', '/[éèêë]/u' => 'e', '/[ÉÈÊË]/u' => 'E', '/[óòôõºö]/u' => 'o', '/[ÓÒÔÕÖØ]/u' => 'O', '/[úùûü]/u' => 'u', '/[ÚÙÛÜ]/u' => 'U', '/ç/' => 'c', '/Ç/' => 'C', '/ñ/' => 'n', '/Ñ/' => 'N', '/–/' => '-', // UTF-8 hyphen to "normal" hyphen '/[’‘‹›‚]/u' => ' ', // Literally a single quote '/[“”«»„]/u' => ' ', // Double quote '/ /' => ' ', // nonbreaking space (equiv. to 0x160) ); return preg_replace(array_keys($utf8), array_values($utf8), $text); }
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