Remove all unicode from a string

jerry

I am trying to use php to remove all unicode from a string. What I am
seeing it the white question mark with a black diamond. I have tried
html_entity_decode and preg_replace but had no luck. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Jun 13 '07 #1

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Edward Z. Yang

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je***@mynetserv.com wrote:

I am trying to use php to remove all unicode from a string. What I am
seeing it the white question mark with a black diamond. I have tried
html_entity_decode and preg_replace but had no luck. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Try utf8_decode()
<http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.phpNote that this
function will replace your Unicode characters with question marks, and
will not convert valid ISO-8859-1 characters.

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Jun 15 '07 #2

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