Converting special characters in php

Question

I want to create a folder with the following name:

1.Visit to L’Aventure Du Sucre Museum and Factory

2.Visit to Vallée des Couleurs

but I am getting :

Visit to Lâ€™Aventure Du Sucre Museum and Factory
Visit to VallÃ©e des Couleurs

how to deal with these special characters ? I know it is a well-known issue but I can't make it works please help

here is my code :

$Title = "Visit to L’Aventure Du Sucre Museum and Factory";

mkdir('uploadImage/'. $Title, 0777, true);

You should change your naming of the directories. For example you could md5 the title so it will only contain characters and numbers and no special characters. — Manuel Mannhardt, Jan 15 '17 at 15:59
Does your OS support multi byte character sets? What OS are you running — RiggsFolly, Jan 15 '17 at 16:04
I can't md5 the title Manuel because I need the name for future use — Elliott Sadgamer, Jan 15 '17 at 16:09
what you're trying to do isn't a good idea and for many reasons. However, what I see here is an encoding problem. — Funk Forty Niner, Jan 15 '17 at 16:10
The title value is obtain from a form input , I tried to use htmlspecialchars_decode but it's not working — Elliott Sadgamer, Jan 15 '17 at 16:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '17 at 16:08

Try to slugify your directory names

function slugify($text){
  // replace non letter or digits by -
  $text = preg_replace('~[^\pL\d]+~u', '-', $text);

  // transliterate
  $text = iconv('utf-8', 'us-ascii//TRANSLIT', $text);

  // remove unwanted characters
  $text = preg_replace('~[^-\w]+~', '', $text);

  // trim
  $text = trim($text, '-');

  // remove duplicate -
  $text = preg_replace('~-+~', '-', $text);

  // lowercase
  $text = strtolower($text);

  return $text;
}

$Title = "Visit to L’Aventure Du Sucre Museum and Factory";
$Title = slugify($Title)
mkdir('uploadImage/'. $Title, 0777, true);

Thanks it works but I thought it would be more simple – Elliott Sadgamer Jan 15 '17 at 16:26 — Elliott Sadgamer, Jan 15 '17 at 16:26

Converting special characters in php

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