Question

I have a txt file (File encoded in ANSI according to Notepad++) that has ‘…’ in it. I am reading in the file line by line, and I would like to replace … with ...

Everything I try seems to fail

1. $str = htmlentities($str); # trying to convert to … as I can deal with this
2. $str = mb_ereg_replace("…","...",$str);
3. $str = str_replace("…", "...", $str);

All of the above aren’t working! What am I missing and how can I fix this issue?

NOTE: My php script that is trying to fix this is encoded in UTF8 and the php header is UTF8

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

As you said it is represented with the byte 0x85 in the file, try this:

$str = str_replace("\x85", "...", $str);