Question

I am working on a little website for my mother in php, using mysql.
I want to use the inserted cities to spit out Google Maps.

Problem is that if you insert a city with a Swedish name, such as Norrköping, Google won’t give you a map. You have to insert “Norrkoping” without the umlauts.

Is there a way I can change the charset with getting the info, or inputting it, so the dots are removed?

Same thing får Åå (store as Aa) and Ää (store as Aa).

Thanks!

Answer 1

Why not something like this?

$s = array('Å', 'å', 'Ö', 'ö');
$r = array('A', 'a', 'O', 'o');
$name = str_replace($s, $r, $name);

Translating “svensk-o” to “a” is not really all that much correct, I guess… but it’s what you need to make it work, right? You would of course need to add a few more characters if Nürnberg or Crécy are supposed to be un-accented too, but the number of umlauts is very limited, luckily… 🙂