On 10/25/10 7:37 AM, Chris Snyder wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Andrew Yochum<and...@plexpod.com> wrote:
Hi Paul,
You can achieve that with unicode transliteration:
http://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/transliteration-guidelines
Check out the PHP Iconv extension:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/intro.iconv.php
Hope that helps!
An example would rock this thread, Andrew.
Sure.
I'll admit, its finicky and convoluted. PHP 5.3 has an new Internationalization
extension, but I've yet to play with it and IIRC, it does not have
transliteration yet.
http://php.net/intl
Andrei Zmievski demoed translitteration in PHP 6 in 2006, but well, thats
another story.
http://zmievski.org/talks/
So, thus, the Iconv solution is still the answer.
<?php
// Find your locale w/ cmd 'locale -a'
// setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US.UTF-8'); // Works on my mac
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US.utf8'); // works on my linux boxen
$text = "Some unicode character text: âäåãá éèêë Düsseldorf";
$from = 'UTF-8';
$to = 'ASCII';
echo 'Original : ', $text, PHP_EOL;
echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv($from, $to."//TRANSLIT", $text), PHP_EOL;
echo 'IGNORE : ', iconv($from, $to."/IGNORE", $text), PHP_EOL;
echo 'Plain : ', iconv($from, $to, $text), PHP_EOL;
?>
Output:
Original : Some unicode character text: âäåãá éèêë Düsseldorf
TRANSLIT : Some unicode character text: aaeaaaa eeee Duesseldorf
IGNORE :
Plain : Some unicode character text:
YMMV.
Also, Derrick Rethans has a cool little PECL extension that does
transliteration quite simply. Never used it, but looks good.
http://derickrethans.nl/projects.html#translit
Hope that helps... more.
Regards,
Andrew
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