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::Ben

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When text contains accented characters, COM_getTextContent replaces them by ?

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/**
* Turn a piece of HTML into continuous(!) plain text
*
* This function removes HTML tags, line breaks, etc. and returns one long
* line of text. This is useful for word counts (do an explode() on the result)
* and for text excerpts.
*
* @param    string  $text   original text, including HTML and line breaks
* @return   string          continuous plain text
*
*/
function COM_getTextContent($text)
{
    // replace <br> with spaces so that Text<br>Text becomes two words
    $text = preg_replace('/\<br(\s*)?\/?\>/i', ' ', $text);

    // add extra space between tags, e.g. <p>Text</p><p>Text</p>
    $text = str_replace('><', '> <', $text);

    // only now remove all HTML tags
    $text = strip_tags($text);

    // replace all tabs, newlines, and carrriage returns with spaces
    $text = str_replace(array("\011", "\012", "\015"), ' ', $text);

    // replace entities with plain spaces
    $text = str_replace(array('&#20;', '&#160;', '&nbsp;'), ' ', $text);

    // collapse whitespace
    $text = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $text);

    return trim($text);
}


How can we solve this?

Ben
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Roccivic

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Quote by: %3A%3ABen

How can we solve this?


Try commenting out the str_replace and preg_replace function calls one ata time and monitor the output, so you can narrow it down to which exact function call(s) cause the problem. Then it should be easier to come up with a fix.

BTW, shouldn't this be a bug report in the tracker?

Rouslan
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