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<?php $a = 'COL├â?N 1391'; function decodeTildes($cadena) { return str_replace(array('&aacute;', '├â?','├é┬║','&eacute;', '├»┬┐┬¢', '├»┬┐┬¢', '&uacute;', '&ntilde;', '&Aacute;', '&Eacute;', '&Iacute;', '&Oacute;', '&Uacute;', '&Ntilde;', '&deg;', '&quot;'), array('á','ñ','º', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú', 'ñ', 'Á', 'É', 'Í', 'Ó', 'Ú', 'Ñ', '°', '"'), $cadena); } function clean($string) { $string = str_replace(' ', '-', $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens. //$string = str_replace("├â?","Ñ",$string); return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '', $string); // Removes special chars. } echo clean($a); echo "\n"; echo decodeTildes($a);

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