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| -rw-r--r-- | user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html | 7 |
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diff --git a/user_guide/changelog.html b/user_guide/changelog.html index 95b1e6ccd..bd2099937 100644 --- a/user_guide/changelog.html +++ b/user_guide/changelog.html @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Hg Tag: </p> </li> <li>Helpers <ul> + <li>Added <kbd>convert_accented_characters()</kbd> function to <a href="./helpers/text_helper.html">text helper</a>.</li> <li>Added accept-charset to the list of inserted attributes of <kbd>form_open()</kbd> in the <a href="helpers/form_helper.html">Form Helper</a>.</li> <li>Deprecated the <kbd>dohash()</kbd> function in favour of <kbd>do_hash()</kbd> for naming consistency.</li> <li>Non-backwards compatible change made to <kbd>get_dir_file_info()</kbd> in the <a href="helpers/file_helper.html">File Helper</a>. No longer recurses diff --git a/user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html b/user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html index c80300c8b..9e8f8f5e1 100644 --- a/user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html +++ b/user_guide/helpers/text_helper.html @@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ part it should correctly identify characters outside the normal range (like acce <p>This function does the opposite of the previous one; it turns character entities back into ASCII.</p> +<h2>convert_accented_characters()</h2> + +<p>Transliterates high ASCII characters to low ASCII equivalents, useful when non-English characters need to be used where only standard ASCII characters are safely used, for instance, in URLs.</p> + +<code>$string = convert_accented_characters($string);</code> + +<p>This function uses a companion config file <dfn>system/application/config/foreign_chars.php</dfn> to define the to and from array for transliteration.</p> <h2>word_censor()</h2> |