Comments on: Getting Rid of Non Breaking Spaces ( )

By: Shailesh

Shailesh — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:35:42 +0000

Thank you for this very well written article. It helped me find the solution immediately. BTW, if you just remove \x0A in UTF-8 content, and leave behind the prefix of \xC2, then when you try to insert this data into MySQL using a PHP script, the data will be truncated silently in the table. This happens when the table/database/connection is set up to receive UTF-8 data.

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:30:25 +0000

Those are hex codes, so the tool in my post will convert these (if you remove the %).
Different languages have different functions for converting these as well if that is what you are asking?

By: Will

Will — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:31:06 +0000

Hi,

Sometimes I see codes like %2F in the url. The / and : are changed.

Do you know if there is any tool that can convert
%2F to /
%3A to :

Thanks

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:37:10 +0000

Awesome! Great to be able to help and always lovely to hear some feedback :D

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:28:57 +0000

Thanks for this info. This helped me get rid of annoying non-breaking spaces in WordPress output.

By: ErisDS

ErisDS — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:34:29 +0000

@Rob I don’t think I’m exactly the authority to be giving tutorials on preg_replace. But I’ve added an example above of how to use it to clean out encoded non breaking spaces!

By: Rob Mason

Rob Mason — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:27:00 +0000

An article on preg_replace would be a useful one .

R ;)

By: Stanton

Stanton — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:20:04 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write this up, I tend to come across this problem every now and then and will be bookmarking it for future reference :)