Question

I have an arial character giving me a headache. U+02DD turns into a question mark after I turn its document into a phpquery object. What is an efficient method for removing the character in php by referring to it as 'U+02DD'?

Answer 1

Use preg_replace and do it like this:

$str = "your text with that character";

echo preg_replace("#\x{02DD}#u", "", $str); //EDIT: inserted the u tag for unicode

To refer to large unicode ranges, you can use preg_replace and specify the unicode character with \x{abcd} pattern. The second parameter is an empty string that. This will make preg_replace to replace your character with nothing, effectively removing it.

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[EDIT] Another way:

Did you try doing htmlentities on it. As it’s html-entity is ˝, doing that OR replacing the character by ˝ may solve your issue too. Like this:

echo preg_replace("#\x{02DD}#u", "˝", $str);