Sounds like the special characters you are trying to work with are
multibyte characters, therefore the regular str_replace won't work on
them.  Take a look at this page over at www.php.net:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php

You should be able to find all the functions you need in order to
replace the special characters.

On 8/3/06, anarchitect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> @John: Yes, i can and it works technically, as the created slug works
> as expected. Yet esthetically this is not that nice:
>
>         posts/view/%DCberschrift
>
> In German - and i think this counts for other languages - there are
> replacements for  special characters. As indicated in the code above.
> Therefore it would be nice if i actually could access (find and
> replace) the special characters that are entered in the form.
>
> @Chris: could you be a bit more specific. I guess i have no clue what
> multibyte string manipulation means.
>
> Does anybody know how data is encoded before saved via the model in the
> database and how this could be decoded to access as described above?
> Thanks again.
>
>
> >
>


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