I have some text as below:
$cnt = "header text�
first line
�
The second line
�
other line
�"
can I remove all special text like � in my string?
i used $cnt = str_replace("�", "", $cnt);
but nothing change.
can you help me?
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Marc B
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Nguyen Bui
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1It seems a character encoding mess to me...maybe is produced when the values are stored in the database..you should use `utf8_encode($myval);` before you stored them... – Hackerman Jul 08 '14 at 17:05
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It looks like line breaks that got broken. (Line breaks are commonly `\r\n` or `\n` character secuences.) Where do you get the string from? – Guffa Jul 08 '14 at 17:21
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Hi Robert, I tried with your suggestion, but string with Vietnamese will show like this "Bá»nh do Än uá»ng" – Nguyen Bui Jul 08 '14 at 17:29
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Hi Guffa, the string read from some pages – Nguyen Bui Jul 08 '14 at 17:31
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@NguyenBui: How do you read the string? Do you read it from file? Does it come from user input? – Guffa Jul 08 '14 at 17:36
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@Guffa: I use curl to get html content from web pages, then use Dom to get some elements. – Nguyen Bui Jul 08 '14 at 17:42
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@NguyenBui: Then there are several things that could be wrong, like character encoding and line break parsing. If you can find out the character codes of those `�` characters that might give a hint. A character shown as `�` can be any character that isn't covered by the font that you are using to view the text. – Guffa Jul 08 '14 at 20:37
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What's your target character encoding? You may want to strip all non UTF-8 characters from your string. See here:
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Try this out
$str = str_replace("\xEF\xBB\xBF",'',$str);
It removes utf-8 bom (byte-order mark) characters.
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@Guffa Thanks for sharing .But above statement removes the special characters in from php string. – Vivek Pratap Singh Jul 08 '14 at 17:22