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Funny but I can not remove symbol

Discussion in 'PHP' started by deriklogov, Nov 7, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hey guy,

    Need your urgent help, I got some text in mysql , that text contains very strange symbol which creates me problems in xml.
    I can not even copy&paste that symbol into browser, browser can not see it, so I decide to make a picture of it.

    Look at the symbol in front of Director [​IMG]

    How to remove it ? I try preg_replace with preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9]/","",$out); still doesnt go away, tried some other , nothing helps.
     
    deriklogov, Nov 7, 2009 IP
  2. SomeRandomDude

    SomeRandomDude Peon

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    assuming $str = "*Director"

    remove the first character from $str with the following:

    
    $str = substr($str, 1, (strlen($str) - 1));
    
    Code (markup):
     
    SomeRandomDude, Nov 8, 2009 IP
  3. killerj

    killerj Active Member

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    It looks like the unicode character that represents the female gender (U+2640 ).
    Pass the $out variable to the function below. It strips most of the unwanted Unicode characters.
     
    function strip_symbols( $text )
    {
        $plus   = '\+\x{FE62}\x{FF0B}\x{208A}\x{207A}';
        $minus  = '\x{2012}\x{208B}\x{207B}';
     
        $units  = '\\x{00B0}\x{2103}\x{2109}\\x{23CD}';
        $units .= '\\x{32CC}-\\x{32CE}';
        $units .= '\\x{3300}-\\x{3357}';
        $units .= '\\x{3371}-\\x{33DF}';
        $units .= '\\x{33FF}';
     
        $ideo   = '\\x{2E80}-\\x{2EF3}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{2F00}-\\x{2FD5}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{2FF0}-\\x{2FFB}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{3037}-\\x{303F}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{3190}-\\x{319F}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{31C0}-\\x{31CF}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{32C0}-\\x{32CB}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{3358}-\\x{3370}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{33E0}-\\x{33FE}';
        $ideo  .= '\\x{A490}-\\x{A4C6}';
     
        return preg_replace(
            array(
            // Remove modifier and private use symbols.
                '/[\p{Sk}\p{Co}]/u',
            // Remove mathematics symbols except + - = ~ and fraction slash
                '/\p{Sm}(?<![' . $plus . $minus . '=~\x{2044}])/u',
            // Remove + - if space before, no number or currency after
                '/((?<= )|^)[' . $plus . $minus . ']+((?![\p{N}\p{Sc}])|$)/u',
            // Remove = if space before
                '/((?<= )|^)=+/u',
            // Remove + - = ~ if space after
                '/[' . $plus . $minus . '=~]+((?= )|$)/u',
            // Remove other symbols except units and ideograph parts
                '/\p{So}(?<![' . $units . $ideo . '])/u',
            // Remove consecutive white space
                '/ +/',
            ),
            ' ',
            $text );
    }
    
    PHP:
    Source :http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/09/php_tip_how_strip_symbol_characters_web_page
     
    killerj, Nov 8, 2009 IP