Code 2005/01/25 1 min read

Remove Invalid Characters in UTF-8

By Ozh

Via How to get rid of invalid UTF-8 characters: to remove them, for example after aggregating del.icio.us or rss feeds, simply use this trick :

$text = iconv("UTF-8","UTF-8//IGNORE",$text);

5 comments

piou 2005/01/27

ah ah
character encoding is a neverending source of headaches

UTF-8 should be used if you dont't want to use HTML equivalents of unusual characters in your page (unless your site is in english only)

but only recent versions of MySQL can manage UTF-8, so that knowing webhosts never upgrade their servers, it's all about converting every time you use a database…

not to speak of text editors and windows 's false iso charset

(take a look at wordpress's souce ;)
Chs 2008/06/23

Thank you for this, it helped me a lot.
HighToro 2009/03/30

You're a genious! Tnx a lot!!
mary 2009/05/04

thanks, helped me out a lot :)
Daniel 2009/06/04

Great code, that helped me a lot! Thanks!

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