Question

I am trying to replace accented characters with the normal replacements. Below is what I am currently doing.

    $string = "Éric Cantona";
    $strict = strtolower($string);

    echo "After Lower: ".$strict;

    $patterns[0] = '/[á|â|à|å|ä]/';
    $patterns[1] = '/[ð|é|ê|è|ë]/';
    $patterns[2] = '/[í|î|ì|ï]/';
    $patterns[3] = '/[ó|ô|ò|ø|õ|ö]/';
    $patterns[4] = '/[ú|û|ù|ü]/';
    $patterns[5] = '/æ/';
    $patterns[6] = '/ç/';
    $patterns[7] = '/ß/';
    $replacements[0] = 'a';
    $replacements[1] = 'e';
    $replacements[2] = 'i';
    $replacements[3] = 'o';
    $replacements[4] = 'u';
    $replacements[5] = 'ae';
    $replacements[6] = 'c';
    $replacements[7] = 'ss';

    $strict = preg_replace($patterns, $replacements, $strict);
    echo "Final: ".$strict;

This gives me:

    After Lower: éric cantona
    Final: ric cantona

The above gives me ric cantona I want the output to be eric cantona.

can anyone help me with where I am going wrong?

Answer 1

I have tried all sorts based on the variations listed in the answers, but the following worked:

$unwanted_array = array(    'Š'=>'S', 'š'=>'s', 'Ž'=>'Z', 'ž'=>'z', 'À'=>'A', 'Á'=>'A', 'Â'=>'A', 'Ã'=>'A', 'Ä'=>'A', 'Å'=>'A', 'Æ'=>'A', 'Ç'=>'C', 'È'=>'E', 'É'=>'E',
                            'Ê'=>'E', 'Ë'=>'E', 'Ì'=>'I', 'Í'=>'I', 'Î'=>'I', 'Ï'=>'I', 'Ñ'=>'N', 'Ò'=>'O', 'Ó'=>'O', 'Ô'=>'O', 'Õ'=>'O', 'Ö'=>'O', 'Ø'=>'O', 'Ù'=>'U',
                            'Ú'=>'U', 'Û'=>'U', 'Ü'=>'U', 'Ý'=>'Y', 'Þ'=>'B', 'ß'=>'Ss', 'à'=>'a', 'á'=>'a', 'â'=>'a', 'ã'=>'a', 'ä'=>'a', 'å'=>'a', 'æ'=>'a', 'ç'=>'c',
                            'è'=>'e', 'é'=>'e', 'ê'=>'e', 'ë'=>'e', 'ì'=>'i', 'í'=>'i', 'î'=>'i', 'ï'=>'i', 'ð'=>'o', 'ñ'=>'n', 'ò'=>'o', 'ó'=>'o', 'ô'=>'o', 'õ'=>'o',
                            'ö'=>'o', 'ø'=>'o', 'ù'=>'u', 'ú'=>'u', 'û'=>'u', 'ý'=>'y', 'þ'=>'b', 'ÿ'=>'y' );
$str = strtr( $str, $unwanted_array );