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iconv: Force encoding before removing accented characters

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I was trying to remove accented characters and the character substitution was incorrect. After mucking around I realised I needed to encode.

I don't know exactly why I needed to force encoding. It might simply be because the server was linux.

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$GLOBALS['normalizeChars'] = array(
'Ã…Â '=>'S', 'Ã…Â¡'=>'s', 'Ã…Â½'=>'Z', 'Ã…Â¾'=>'z', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'A', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'A', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'A', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'A', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'A', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'A', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'A', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'C', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'E', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'E',
                            'Ãƒï¿½'=>'E', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'E', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'I', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'I', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'I', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'I', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'N', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'O', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'O', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'O', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'O', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'O', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'O', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'U',
                            'Ãƒï¿½'=>'U', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'U', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'U', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'Y', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'B', 'Ãƒï¿½'=>'Ss', 'ÃƒÂ '=>'a', 'ÃƒÂ¡'=>'a', 'ÃƒÂ¢'=>'a', 'ÃƒÂ£'=>'a', 'ÃƒÂ¤'=>'a', 'ÃƒÂ¥'=>'a', 'ÃƒÂ¦'=>'a', 'ÃƒÂ§'=>'c',
                            'ÃƒÂ¨'=>'e', 'ÃƒÂ©'=>'e', 'ÃƒÂª'=>'e', 'ÃƒÂ«'=>'e', 'ÃƒÂ¬'=>'i', 'ÃƒÂ'=>'i', 'ÃƒÂ®'=>'i', 'ÃƒÂ¯'=>'i', 'ÃƒÂ°'=>'o', 'ÃƒÂ±'=>'n', 'ÃƒÂ²'=>'o', 'ÃƒÂ³'=>'o', 'ÃƒÂ´'=>'o', 'ÃƒÂµ'=>'o',
                            'ÃƒÂ¶'=>'o', 'ÃƒÂ¸'=>'o', 'ÃƒÂ¹'=>'u', 'ÃƒÂº'=>'u', 'ÃƒÂ»'=>'u', 'ÃƒÂ½'=>'y', 'ÃƒÂ½'=>'y', 'ÃƒÂ¾'=>'b', 'ÃƒÂ¿'=>'y'
);

function cleanForShortURL($toClean) {
    $toClean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT//IGNORE', $toClean );
    return strtr($toClean, $GLOBALS['normalizeChars']);

}

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