Convert UTF-8 text to ASCII in PHP

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This code outputs UTF-8:

echo mb_detect_encoding("ø")

And this code outputs ASCII:

echo mb_detect_encoding("&#248;");

So, how do you convert UTF-8 to ASCII? For example: convert ø to &#248

Possible duplicate of Html encode in PHP

Grant Miller
– Grant Miller

2018-07-09 23:07:53 +00:00
Commented Jul 9, 2018 at 23:07 — Grant Miller
– Grant Miller, Commented Jul 9, 2018 at 23:07

deceze · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-15 08:35:26Z

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ø is an HTML entity. It uses only ASCII characters, so it's detected as ASCII, yes. You just need to HTML encode your text:

echo htmlentities('ø', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');

This will output ø, but it's an equivalent named HTML entity.

I'm going out on a limb though and suggest that you don't really understand what you want exactly. Maybe you should read What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text and go from there.

answered Sep 15, 2014 at 8:35

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Isaac · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-15 08:39:04Z

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Use htmlentities to achieve what you looking for

$myVar = 'ø';

$val = htmlentities($myVar);
echo $myVar;
// ø
echo mb_detect_encoding($myVar);
// UTF-8

echo $val;
// &oslash;
echo mb_detect_encoding($val);
//ASCII

answered Sep 15, 2014 at 8:39

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