iconv to strip out specfic language characters

[kkadrese]

hello group,

I cannot figure out how to use iconv to "normalize" characters
specific to some language. I need it in file upload where I take a
file from local disc and then save to server and use in web pages, for
example, as img source.

What should be the second parameter of the function?

Say,
iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);
works but it gives too much transformed result.

I would like just replace specific chars, like "a acute", "a with
macron", "a umlaut", with a character without accent.
Andra.

[Mityok]

On Apr 24, 2:44 pm, [e-mail] wrote:

hello group,

I cannot figure out how to use iconv to "normalize" characters
specific to some language. I need it in file upload where I take a
file from local disc and then save to server and use in web pages, for
example, as img source.

What should be the second parameter of the function?

Say,
iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);
works but it gives too much transformed result.

I would like just replace specific chars, like "a acute", "a with
macron", "a umlaut", with a character without accent.

Andra.

Hello Andra,

Try using

iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//IGNORE', $str);

instead of

iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);

You can find more detailed info at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php
(Note the user's comments they are really useful).

Mityok.

[kkadrese]

thank you,
I will stay now with
$str = iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//IGNORE', $str);

Disappointingly that there is not such a function that would convert
language-specific characters to their ascii look-alikes. For me it
does not matter so much that it is not the same and more correct
representation would be specific for each language and so on so on...
I just need filenames to be used without problems and recognizable to
the author.

hello group,

I cannot figure out how to use iconv to "normalize" characters
specific to some language. I need it in file upload where I take a
file from local disc and then save to server and use in web pages, for
example, as img source.

What should be the second parameter of the function?

Say,
iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);
works but it gives too much transformed result.

I would like just replace specific chars, like "a acute", "a with
macron", "a umlaut", with a character without accent.

Andra.

Hello Andra,

Try using

iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//IGNORE', $str);

instead of

iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $str);

You can find more detailed info at http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php
(Note the user's comments they are really useful).

Mityok.