[Zhen-Xjell]

Originally Posted by Dean C

Well I noticed on castlecops you still have the foreign chars in the actual URI's. My problem with that is that no-one showed me evidence that these chars are actually valid in a URI. I've changed a lot since then but I used this function to convert foreign chars to their english equivalent:

PHP Code:

// function to replace foreign chars with their english equivalent
function remove_accents($text)
{
    $trans = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
    foreach($trans as $literal =>$entity)
    {
           if(ord($literal) >= 192)
           { 
                 $replace[] = substr($entity, 1, 1); 
                 $search[] = $literal;
             }
         } 
    return str_replace($search, $replace, $text);
} 


You need to take a look at IRIs and the URI-> IRI mapping (international resource identifier).