PHP: Dealing special characters with iconv
I still don't understand how iconv works.
For instance,
$string = "Löic & René";
$output = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $string);
I get,
Notice: iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected an illegal character in input string in...
$string = "Löic"; or $string = "René";
I get,
Notice: iconv() [function.iconv]: Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string in.
I get nothing with $string = "&";
There are two sets of different outputs I need store them in the two different columns inside the table of my database,
I need to convert
Löic & RenétoLoic & Renefor clean url purposes.I need to keep them as they are -
Löic & RenéasLöic & Renéthen only convert them withhtmlentities($string, ENT_QUOTES);when displaying them on my html page.
I tried with some of the suggestions in php.net below, but still don't work,
I had a situation where I needed some characters transliterated, but the others ignored (for weird diacritics like ayn or hamza). Adding //TRANSLIT//IGNORE seemed to do the trick for me. It transliterates everything that is able to be transliterated, but then throws out stuff that can't be.
So:
$string = "ʿABBĀSĀBĀD";
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', $string);
// output: [nothing, and you get a notice]
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//IGNORE', $string);
// output: ABBSBD
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $string);
// output: ABBASABAD
// Yay! That's what I wanted!
and another,
Andries Seutens 07-Nov-2009 07:38
When doing transliteration, you have to make sure that your LC_COLLATE is properly set, otherwise the default POSIX will be used.
To transform "rené" into "rene" we could use the following code snippet:
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'nl_BE.utf8');
$string = 'rené';
$string = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);
echo $string; // outputs rene
How can I actually work them out?
Thanks.
EDIT:
This is the source file I test the code,
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="no-js">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<?php
$string = "Löic & René";
$output = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $string);
?>
</html>
Answer
$clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', utf8_encode($s));