How to convert 'u00e9' into a utf8 char, in mysql or php?

Question

Im doing some data cleansing on some messy data which is being imported into mysql.

The data contains 'pseudo' unicode chars, which are actually embedded into the strings as 'u00e9' etc.

So one field might be.. 'Jalostotitlu00e1n' I need to rip out that clumsy 'u00e1n' and replace it with the corresponding utf character

I can do this in either mysql, using substring and CHR maybe, but Im preprocssing the data via PHP, so I could do it there also.

I already know all about how to configure mysql and php to work with utf data. The problem is really just in the source data Im importing.

Thanks

Answer 1

/* Function php for convert utf8 html to ansi */

public static function Utf8_ansi($valor='') {

    $utf8_ansi2 = array(
    "\u00c0" =>"À",
    "\u00c1" =>"Á",
    "\u00c2" =>"Â",
    "\u00c3" =>"Ã",
    "\u00c4" =>"Ä",
    "\u00c5" =>"Å",
    "\u00c6" =>"Æ",
    "\u00c7" =>"Ç",
    "\u00c8" =>"È",
    "\u00c9" =>"É",
    "\u00ca" =>"Ê",
    "\u00cb" =>"Ë",
    "\u00cc" =>"Ì",
    "\u00cd" =>"Í",
    "\u00ce" =>"Î",
    "\u00cf" =>"Ï",
    "\u00d1" =>"Ñ",
    "\u00d2" =>"Ò",
    "\u00d3" =>"Ó",
    "\u00d4" =>"Ô",
    "\u00d5" =>"Õ",
    "\u00d6" =>"Ö",
    "\u00d8" =>"Ø",
    "\u00d9" =>"Ù",
    "\u00da" =>"Ú",
    "\u00db" =>"Û",
    "\u00dc" =>"Ü",
    "\u00dd" =>"Ý",
    "\u00df" =>"ß",
    "\u00e0" =>"à",
    "\u00e1" =>"á",
    "\u00e2" =>"â",
    "\u00e3" =>"ã",
    "\u00e4" =>"ä",
    "\u00e5" =>"å",
    "\u00e6" =>"æ",
    "\u00e7" =>"ç",
    "\u00e8" =>"è",
    "\u00e9" =>"é",
    "\u00ea" =>"ê",
    "\u00eb" =>"ë",
    "\u00ec" =>"ì",
    "\u00ed" =>"í",
    "\u00ee" =>"î",
    "\u00ef" =>"ï",
    "\u00f0" =>"ð",
    "\u00f1" =>"ñ",
    "\u00f2" =>"ò",
    "\u00f3" =>"ó",
    "\u00f4" =>"ô",
    "\u00f5" =>"õ",
    "\u00f6" =>"ö",
    "\u00f8" =>"ø",
    "\u00f9" =>"ù",
    "\u00fa" =>"ú",
    "\u00fb" =>"û",
    "\u00fc" =>"ü",
    "\u00fd" =>"ý",
    "\u00ff" =>"ÿ");

    return strtr($valor, $utf8_ansi2);      

}