problem with a skipurl function, please help

this function

    function skipURL($string){
		$string = preg_replace("`\[.*\]`U","",$string);
		$string = preg_replace('`&(amp;)?#?[a-z0-9]+;`i','-',$string);
		$string = htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8');
		$string = preg_replace( "`&([a-z])(acute|uml|circ|grave|ring|cedil|slash|tilde|caron|lig|quot|rsquo);`i","\\1", $string );
		$string = preg_replace( array("`[^a-z0-9]`i","`[-]+`") , "-", $string);
		return strtolower(trim($string, '-'));
	}

PHP:

this works like what i need.

but im haveing a problem this function works good with english language but what if there is any kind of other language

like arabic for examble

if i have this string with english

LOREM _ DolOr :^*(

the function going to make like that

lorem-dolor

but what if there a string like that

english :: عربى

it's going to be like that

english

i just want it to be like that

english-عربى

so please if anyone can help me with this

thanks

 

There is an encoding problem.
Instead of using strtolower() you should use mb_strtolower().

 

also not working sorry,

the arabic language characters also not showing

please if you have any other idea

 

any ideas?

 

Set encoding properly to UTF-8 and make use of the mb_strtolower() and mb_string() in combination. I dont know any thing other than that.

Also try to set the locale as arabic if needed.

 

thanks for answering, but i've solved the problem.
thanks again

 

the current php functions not support arabic but you can make strtolower_ar()
just use replace functions