Convert french accent to specific encoding in PHP

Question

In php, what function can I use to convert the text 'pétition' to 'p%E9tition'.

I have tried with uft8_encode and uft8_decode with no success.

Answer 1

%E9 is an URL encoded escape character. You can achieve this by urlecode($string) .

If you want HTML escaping, you can either use htmlentities($string) (more encoding) or htmlspecialchars($string) (less encoding).

• http://php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php
• http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php
• http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php

Answer 2

You can try to have a look at htmlentities. This link can help

Answer 3

When dealing with UTF-8 strings, you will need to decode the string (ie. with utf8_decode ) before encoding with urlencode to be used in a query part of a URL.

print_r( urlencode(utf8_decode('pétition')) );
// p%E9tition