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Jun 19.2006

Hi,

I need to convert a string to UTF-8, but I don’t have the iconv functions available on my server.
My string contains accented characters e.g. the letter ‘e’ with an acute accent as in French. I just want to remove any accents e.g. to convert ‘e acute’ into a plain ascii ‘e’.
Any ideas?

Thanks

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@NogDogJun 19.2006 — I'm a bit confused: first you ask how to convert to UTF-8, presumably so that you can utilize the extended character set which it supports, then you ask how to convert an e-acute (which doesn't even require UTF-8, it can be displayed with the standard ASCII character set) into an "e". Perhaps we need some clarification as to exactly what you are trying to accomplish?
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@Black_KnightauthorJun 19.2006 — The file I'm trying to create is for a Froogle data upload, which are required to be UTF-8. All was OK until now, but they have recently made some changes, and it started saying my uploads contained invalid UTF-8 characters -- and was highlighting the accented charcters in my file as invalid. So why should it say these are invalid if e-acutes etc are valid UTF-8?

I have found a function which will convert these to their English counterparts, but perhaps that isn't the problem, I will have to see what happens.
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@NogDogJun 20.2006 — In the upload file, is the e-acute simply that single character, or is it the HTML entity "&eacute" (or "&###;", where ### is the ascii number of the character)? If it's the HTML entity, you could use the html_entity_decode() function to convert it into the single Latin1/UTF-8 character.
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