Changing letters to alphanumerics?

frigidman

Does anyone know how to RELIABLY change ascii letters to their normal letter equivalent?

Example:

An N with a ~ on top, would be changed to a normal N. An e i o u etc etc etc etc ...

Only the ones used in forgeign language situations. Not the greek letters.

Curious if anyone has a good way to do this to take into account all the various browsers, encode type, and form submittals from various users to a single machine. Seems like its near impossible to do... but I thought I'd shoot a question off here anyhow.

nobbie

Hey =)

Maybe you can try using the &#code; in HTML when displaying the funny characters ? Ie. if a character is => 33 and <= 126 display it normally, else use the decimal HTML code notation.

This way you leave the displaying of the character up to the browser/OS/etc...

nobbie

Sorry, that isn't displayed right.

the HTML decimal thing should look like this:

&#code;
(hope that works)

ie: for 'A' use : &#65;

frigidman

Yeah, also useing the urlencode() of something is a possiblity... IF the browser the user sends the data from was setup correctly to match what the server is set to look for.

I found out through some nasty trial and dissapointment from various machines and browsers here, that even though a Ÿ on one machine is sent in looking like that, to PHP it could be a %FD or a %9E or something else too!

Problem is, if I use any of those combos, some equate to other letters.

All depends on the browser setup, the charset setup on a page, and if they are from a mac or pc too.

Turned into a maassive headache.