Question

I am using php and getting some utf8 string from Javascript.

I try to remove accent… by using a lot of difference function but still have troubles…
With iconv() I have wrong accent removing, with some encode() I have nothing…

When I use serialize(mystring), my wrong char look like followings:
xE3xA0 with A0 depending of the char.

It there any exhaustive map I can use ?
Is there another method ?

(I am under php 5.2 and no real control on the server so I cannot use intl/Normalize)

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Edit :
code like this doesnt works (otherwise it would be ugly but efficient for short term)

 $string = mb_ereg_replace('(À|Á|Â|Ã|Ä|Å|à|á|â|ã|ä|å)','a',$string);

Answer 1

This should do it:

iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII//TRANSLIT", $text)

If this does not work for you, see “How do I remove accents from characters in a PHP string?“