p1k3-wala/pages/CharacterConversion

WareLogging. SourceCode.  <[[Brennen]]> I don't know enough about weird charsets and weird extended characters, but lately I'm having to deal with them. Here is a useful PHP script, stolen somewhere or another and improvised slightly. Just feed it the filename you want to strip assorted stupid characters out of. And no, I don't actually recommend using PHP for this kind of thing - doubtless I should turn it into Perl.

 <?

 $file = $argv[1];

 print $file;

 $fh = fopen($file, "r");

 while (!feof($fh)) {
    $text .= fread($fh, 8192);
 }

 fclose($fh);

 $text = convert_stupid_shit($text);

 $fh = fopen($file, "w");
 fwrite($fh, $text);
 fclose($fh);

 # functions

 function convert_stupid_shit($string) 
 { 
    $search = array(chr(145), 
                    chr(146), 
                    chr(147), 
                    chr(148), 
                    chr(151),
                    chr(150),
                    chr(153),
                    chr(174)); 
 
    $replace = array("'", 
                     "'", 
                     '"',
                     '"', 
                     '-',
                     '-',
                     '&trade;',
                     '&reg;'); 
 
    return str_replace($search, $replace, $string); 
 }

 ?>