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[Peter Sawczynec]

Recently came across the issue where utf8 characters were getting outputted into links like so:

http://example.com/ãcenar [<< where the "a" is a special character], which a browser can turn to links like so: 

http://example.com/ã�cenar 

 

In researching, I have found that browsers do not handle special utf8 characters in urls very well.

 

So I looked into PHP conversions of utf8 to ascii and found that even this seems an imperfect art.

 

Has anyone found a near perfect utf8 to ascii conversion technique for PHP.

 

I found this reference here: http://www.unexpectedit.com/php/php-clean-string-of-utf8-chars-convert-to-similar-ascii-char

 

Is this the best at this time? Any thoughts? 

 

(Also see this nice character encoding overview if needed: http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html)

 

Warmest regards, 

 

Peter Sawczynec 

Technology Dir.

blūstudio 

941.893.0396

 <mailto:ps at sun-code.com> ps at blu-studio.com 

 <http://www.blu-studio.com> www.blu-studio.com 

 

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