Euro Symbol

[Dave]

Hi. This has been a very useful script for me. However, it does not seem to understand the euro symbol. Can anyone  please help? Thanks.

[Ulrich Fischer]

Hi.
I have the same Problem. Two Dash's (Alt+0150) and (Alt+0151) are also detected as illegal characters. So I tried to clean the "input" with a small function:

function clean($data){
$source_chars=array('','','');
$clean_chars=array(' Euro','-','-');
return str_replace($source_chars,$clean_chars,$data);
}

But to use it is not so easy, as it looks like.
The  comes along as "" but this is also not easyly replaceable.

Even I searched for the right place for two hours, i could not find out, how to clean the input.

What I found out ist, that the illegal character is dedected in the line:
$retstr = ($asciiEncoding) ? $retstr : $this->_encodeUTF16($retstr);
and leads $retstr to function the _encodeUTF16 on the end of reader php.

It would be great, if a cleaning function could be built in...

@Vadim Tkachenko and Travis Harris:
Thanks a lot for the great work you did.

sunfish

[Ulrich Fischer]

Now I found a solution, maybe quick and dirty.
Put a new fuction at the begining of reader.php

//cp1251_utf8 function inserted - called in function _encodeUTF16($string)
//example from http://de3.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php
function cp1251_utf8( $sInput )
{
   $sOutput = "";
    echo 'input: '.$sInput.' // ';
   for ( $i = 0; $i < strlen( $sInput ); $i++ )
   {
       $iAscii = ord( $sInput[$i] );
       //echo $iAscii.' -- ';

       if ( $iAscii >= 192 && $iAscii <= 255 )
           $sOutput .=  "&#".( 1040 + ( $iAscii - 192 ) ).";";
       else if ( $iAscii == 168 )
           $sOutput .= "&#".( 1025 ).";";
       else if ( $iAscii == 184 )
           $sOutput .= "&#".( 1105 ).";";    
     else if ( $iAscii == 19 )
           $sOutput .= "&ndash;";
     else if ( $iAscii == 20 )
           $sOutput .= "&mdash;";
     else if ( $iAscii == 172 )
           $sOutput .= "&euro;";    // EURO        
  
       else
           $sOutput .= $sInput[$i];
   }
 
   return $sOutput;
}

and change function _encodeUTF16 at the end of reader.php

function _encodeUTF16($string){
    $result = $string;
    $result = cp1251_utf8($string); //inserted
/* No more needed ?
    if ($this->_defaultEncoding){
       switch ($this->_encoderFunction){
       case 'iconv' :    
       $result = iconv('UTF-16LE', $this->_defaultEncoding, $string);
       break;
       case 'mb_convert_encoding' :    
       $result = mb_convert_encoding($string, $this->_defaultEncoding, 'UTF-16LE' );
       break;
       }
    }*/
       
   return $result;
}