[Resolved] Foreign language regular expressions, I guess

vaaaska

I'm not sure how this is actually done.

If a person input a é (it's an e with a little accent over it) into a form, how is it possible to preg_replace this with an eacute?

I can't seem to get over the bridge on this...v

vaaaska

I've never knowingly bumped a thread - so this will be my first time. Don't hate me. 🙂

mrhappiness

why not

$test = 'Hello, this is a tést';
echo $test;
echo '<br />';
echo str_replace('é', 'ê', $test);

Weedpacket

[man]htmlentities[/man] will do the whole lot at once...

vaaaska

I tried a fast test with mrhapiness' idea before I posted in here, and I'm not sure why, but it didn't work.

Htmlentities is too strong for what I need unfortunately, but I'll mix around with both some more and see what I can come up with.

Thanks...v

crimaniak

no problem

but these sumbols can be written direct or as entities or as UNICODE entities so first you need unify it.

vaaaska

Wait a minute...do I understand this correctly?

I DO NOT need to use "eacute" if a webpage uses UTF-8? Using é at the input level is perfectly good then?

I have been unable to find a direct answer for this...v

vaaaska

Since I cracked this today...it's very simple...

$stuff = str_replace("ê", "&#234;", $string);

Works well enough. Although, it's certainly better to create arrays() of your search and replace information. I actually set a forwards and backwards part to the function so that I can use it to both change the values going into the database and also when it comes out of the database into the textarea where users can make changes.

I'm not sure why I didn't get this the first time around, but this headache has been solved...if anybody ever happens to read this thread...