str_replace with åäö characters.

I'm simply trying to remove parts of strings, which is usually quite simple with str_replace. The problem is that some of the parts contain swedish characters and PHP just seems to ignore them

Example:

$string="<font size=4>tråkig</font>More text. ";
$newstring=str_replace("<font size=4>tråkig</font>", "", $string);

Code (markup):

Doesn't work. However,

$newstring=str_replace("<font size=4>", "", $string);

Code (markup):

removes the text as it's supposed to.

I've tried to:

• Use å instead.
• Just replacing "Ã¥" with "a"
• Use chr(int)

Any ideas of how I can replace the "Ã¥"? Should be very simple but something is not working.

Thank you.

 

I've found a solution, even though it's a bit confusing.

$newstring=str_replace("<font size=4>tråkig.</font>", "",htmlentities($string));
$newstring=html_entity_decode($newstring);

Code (markup):

 

maybe you should work with encoding to solve this problem

 

It wasn't possible since the values where pulled from an external DB.
But as I said, the solution above works.