8 replies to this topic

[lol33d]

Hi guys

i need a code for change Swedish language to english

for ex:
é = e
ö = o
ø = o

help please
thank you

[Vaielab]

You want to translate, or simply change some char to the english equivalent?

[lol33d]

yes

[Vaielab]

Normally, when someone give you a choise between option A and option B you don't answer with yes

[Alexander]

If you have the iconv function, you should be able to transliterate it in to the appropriate lettering:

<?php
$utf8_sentence = "é = e
ö = o
ø = o";
 
//set to your locale
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 'en_US.UTF8');
 
 
//transliteration
echo iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $utf8_sentence);

[bbqroast]

Actually translating text into different languages is very hard. Your best chance is to use a API for a good translator (Google Translate).

[Alexander]

bbqroast said:

Actually translating text into different languages is very hard. Your best chance is to use a API for a good translator (Google Translate).

I believe he means "transliterate" (Write or print (a letter or word) using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or language.) which is a fair bit easier. This can have its use in displaying foreign names in urls (.../Métis/ -> .../Metis) or ASCII neutralization.

[bbqroast]

Alexander said:

I believe he means "transliterate" (Write or print (a letter or word) using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or language.) which is a fair bit easier. This can have its use in displaying foreign names in urls (.../Métis/ -> .../Metis) or ASCII neutralization.

Got it! There is a PHP function that takes a string and two arrays and then searches for letters (or words) in the string from the first array and replaces them with letters from the second array.

[Alexander]

bbqroast said:

Got it! There is a PHP function that takes a string and two arrays and then searches for letters (or words) in the string from the first array and replaces them with letters from the second array.

If the text is multibyte, it may see the first byte of the character as a letter and replace it or other things. PHP only sees unicode strings as separate bytes. It could be hard to do this however, so that is a valid solution although transliteration functions save almost all of the work provided you have them.