Tutorial Convert Accented Characters

For instance, if you want to use a string as part of a URL but need to make it safe for that kind of use. function replace_accents($str) { ...

For instance, if you want to use a string as part of a URL but need to make it safe for that kind of use.
function replace_accents($str) {
$str = htmlentities($str, ENT_COMPAT, "UTF-8");
$str = preg_replace('/&([a-zA-Z])(uml|acute|grave|circ|tilde);/','$1',$str);
return html_entity_decode($str);
}

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