remove non ASCII characters from a String
Hi guys I had a problem with removing non-utf8 characters from string, which are not displaying properly. Characters are like this 0x97 0x61 0x6C 0x6F (hex representation). I am getting some encoded value from url. Let assume it's encoded email and value is ankitchauhan22@gmail.com When I tried to find out the length of this string as $email = somefunction($encodedStringFromUrl); $length = strlen($email); print $length; I was shocked. It's printing 37 instead of 24. Than I printed each index of this string on the string but after 24 character, nothing printed. I used trim() to remove whitespace but didn't work. Then I tried something which worked for me. This is a little snippet that will remove any non-ASCII characters from a string. $string = "ankitchauhan22@gmail.com รครณ"; $string = preg_replace('/[^(\x20-\x7F)]*/','', $string); Now It's printing 24.