German Characters

[Anon]

I am taking images in for all over and I ran into a problem with German characters...it seems to be a, o, and u (with 2 dots above each)....I am currently using URL encode to take care of weird file names but this didn't work in my case...It added an %6F or something like that and made the files unreadable in a URL.....

Anyone have a better solution to getting rid/converting foreign characters?

[Anon]

err...
lets c...

if u simply want to change those german characters into HTML, then u can do it like this:

$string = str_replace("ß","ß",$string);
$string = str_replace("ä","ä",$string);
$string = str_replace("Ä","Ä",$string);
$string = str_replace("ü","ü",$string);
$string = str_replace("Ü","Ü",$string);
$string = str_replace("ö","ö",$string);
$string = str_replace("Ö","Ö",$string);

...hope that was ur question,

so long,

Duncan McLord

[Anon]

DOH!

sry... i didnt know, that HTML is active in the posts, so here it is again:

$string = str_replace("ß","ß",$string);
$string = str_replace("ä","ä",$string);
$string = str_replace("Ä","Ä",$string);
$string = str_replace("ü","ü",$string);
$string = str_replace("Ü","Ü",$string);
$string = str_replace("ö","ö",$string);
$string = str_replace("Ö","Ö",$string);