On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Dan Cech <dcech at phpwerx.net> wrote: > Try: > > $text = @iconv('UTF-8','UTF-8//TRANSLIT',$text); Thanks Dan, I knew there had to be something simple. It looks like mb_convert_encoding($txt,'UTF-8','UTF-8') will work similarly, but just deletes the offending bytes. Regards, John Campbell