I have a string which contains multiple "â" characters, so I made this jquery function to replace them (cannot do it server-side).
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#tab-3').click(function(){
$('#tab-3').html($('#tab-3').html().replace(/â/g, '•'));
});
});
Now this code $('#tab-3').html($('#tab-3').html().replace(/â/g, '•'));
works if I run it in console, but not on page.
I must say that I get the string via curl, and the characters are like so, instead of â
Any ideas? Thanks!
UPDATE 1:
tried this:
setTimeout(function() {
alert('mda');
console.log($('#tab-3').html());
$('#tab-3').html($('#tab-3').html().replace(/â/g, '•'));
}, 0);
Alert works, html() shows the content in console, the last one fails.
I'm starting to think it is the browser that prints the â character, and it may be â
Will try this theory now!
UPDATE 2
Not working, tried with â
instead of â..
Another interesting thing..if i do:
setTimeout(function() {
console.log($('#tab-3').html().replace(/â/g, '•'));
});
or with â instead of â
it prints the string as it is...only if i run the same code again in browser does it work...
I have no idea on what to do next..
here is a screenshot proving it works in browser (the red text above is the console.log i did in setTimeout function...
Ended up using echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//ignore',$string);
I had to use //ignore
because it would generate a notice..But instead of converting it to a bullet, this simply deletes the characters....
Hope this helps anyone. Thank you all for your time!