Encode unicode characters in URL using PHP?

Question

I'm trying to encode a feed's URLs, which unfortunately contain Unicode characters. My feed reader doesn't support this.

My knowledge in php is limited and my basic approach failed when it encountered a French character ç. Clearly listing each character is slow and too much work:

    public function encodeUmlauts($req_url) {
        $req_url = str_replace("ö", urlencode("ö"), $req_url);
        $req_url = str_replace("ü", urlencode("ü"), $req_url);
        $req_url = str_replace("ä", urlencode("ä"), $req_url);
        $req_url = str_replace("Ö", urlencode("Ö"), $req_url);
        $req_url = str_replace("Ü", urlencode("Ü"), $req_url);
        $req_url = str_replace("Ä", urlencode("Ä"), $req_url);
        $req_url = str_replace("ß", urlencode("ß"), $req_url);

        return $req_url;
    }

I assume something can be done with urlencode and/or parse_url, but I don't see an obvious solution.

What I'm looking for is similar to this stackoverflow question, but for PHP.

print urlencode("garçon"); will output gar%C3%A7on

Luuk
– Luuk

2019-12-07 11:26:38 +00:00
Commented Dec 7, 2019 at 11:26 — Luuk
– Luuk, Commented Dec 7, 2019 at 11:26

lafor · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-07 11:26:57Z

1

This will urlencode all non-ascii characters in the URL string:

$url = preg_replace_callback('/[^\x20-\x7f]/', function($match) {
    return urlencode($match[0]);
}, $url);

answered Dec 7, 2019 at 11:26

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