Remove special non standard character from string

Question

I have this string ”Good morning, Dave”. This string contains two non standard double quotes.

Whenever I try to insert into my database table it is converted to this string %u201DGoodmorning,Dave%u201D

I try to replace this kind of character using preg_replace but they are not helpful.This is what I have tried

1) preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9_ %\[\]\.\(\)%&-]/s', '', $String);
2) preg_replace('#[^\w()/.%\-&]#',"",$string);

I also Try mysql_real_escape_string, but is is also not helpful. How can I do this?

see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1401317/remove-non-utf8-characters-from-string — SuVeRa, Oct 16 '12 at 12:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 16 '12 at 11:49

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Try this:

urldecode($string);

instead of using the string on it's own.

edited Oct 16 '12 at 11:49

Stephan

answered Oct 16 '12 at 11:43

meza

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '12 at 11:44

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Have you tried str_replace? format is (item to replace, replace with, string the item is found in.

answered Oct 16 '12 at 11:44

Jim

there are lots of this kind of character are present in any string. How can I map this in str_replace? – Yogesh Suthar Oct 16 '12 at 11:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 16 '12 at 14:33

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I think you were nearly there. 0x201D is the unicode character "RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK"

So you could try...

preg_replace('/\\X201d/', '', $String);

answered Oct 16 '12 at 14:33

Vicki

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