Comments on: Remove Non Ascii Characters using PHP and Regular Expressions

By: Strip And Remove Non-ASCII Characters from a string in PHP | @boydleep

Tue, 11 May 2010 05:01:53 +0000

[...] I have been looking for a great function to do this for awhile and I finally found one… does the job perfectly! I only need to concern myself with English so am not worried about losing non-ascii characters that might make up Arabic or some other language. Kudos to Wes for originally writing and posting this on his blog here: http://www.wessray.com/php/strip-and-remove-non-ascii-characters-using-php-regular-expressions/ [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:12:40 +0000

Christian, look at the title (with php and regular expressions). Why do people create huge php classes to zip files when you can use the “zip” in a CLI interface. This is just a solution for people who are new to programming and paste text into a IDE like dreamweaver leaving characters that look like spaces but parse as ╤⌂Ñ weird shit.

By: Christian Harms

Christian Harms — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:56:34 +0000

1 minute: Why are non-ascii characters in you target document? Could it be possible while converting from the old word perfect document loosing some format information? Or there was france or arabian text in it?

For your solution simply use
> strings mydoc.wpf > mydoc.txt

Good night …

By: phonejail

phonejail — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:38:07 +0000

why do you keep sharing company secrets?

By: Maqatac

Maqatac — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:27:23 +0000

I don’t understand why you haven’t made a million dollars in book sales yet!

By: will

will — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:16:37 +0000

Wow…I’ve needed something like this before. Way to go, and thanks!