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phpregexreplaceunicodesanitization

Remove unwanted multibyte characters without harming "foreign" characters

What is the best way to remove unwanted unicode characters without breaking other foreign characters?

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Solution

  • If you filter the right Unicode ranges, this should work:

    $str = 'Your string with Unicode symbols'
preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]/', '', $str);

    https://3v4l.org/EY06F

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php