Online PHP editor | refs for Sviv8

<?php function stripSpecialCharater($string) { return preg_replace(['/\s{2,}|[\t\R]/u', '/[^a-z\d\s&‚~§©ÂÃâƒ€-]/ui'], [' ', ''], $string); //$string = iconv("Windows-1252","UTF-8",urldecode($string)); //$string = preg_replace(array('/\s{2,}/', '/[\t\n]/'), ' ', $string); //return preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9Ã§&-©‚Âƒâ€˜\s]/', '', $string); } $tests = ['12 34', 'adsf', 'co©', 'pound £']; foreach ($tests as $test) { echo "$test : " , stripSpecialCharater($test), "\n"; }