Question

I have a string I’m pulling from a Filemaker database that’s supposed to read

Pete Dye–designed golf course

but my array returns it as

Pete Dye–designed golf course

i think this has to do with encoding but i’m not sure…how can i correct this error? if it comes down to it, i don’t mind making an str_replace() array for all of the issues, but it would be nice to not have to find the exceptions individually.

thanks!

Answer 1

A quick and dirty workaround is to use iconv function with //TRANSLIT parameter:

// assuming your page is using `ISO-8859-1` character set
echo iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", "Pete Dye–designed golf course");
// Pete Dye-designed golf course

Note that the three byte sequence – is converted to a - which is the approximate representation of the unicode –.