php- allow special characters Â Ê Ç

Question

i have a problem in my php because i'm trying to get a value from a table and the value has special characters like "Ã;-;Ê" i´m using this line of code

preg_replace('/[^,a-zA-Z0-9\.\-\s]/', "", $row["name"]);

but this doesn´t allow me to use Ã Ê or Ç.

can u please adjust my code to work please. thank you for your time.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '18 at 16:55

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You might want to look at PHP's regexp unicode support: http://php.net/manual/pl/regexp.reference.unicode.php

answered May 04 '18 at 16:55

pschichtel

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already did and it didn´t help me – Dimitri Putin May 04 '18 at 16:56
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Well your regular expression is too restrictive, so make it less restrictive by adding more characters to the character class. – pschichtel May 04 '18 at 16:58

php- allow special characters Â Ê Ç

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