PHP utf8_encode() converts spaces to non-breaking spaces [closed]

Answer 1

str_replace("\u00a0", " ", utf8_encode($dat)). But that didn't fix it.

PHP only has byte strings, not native Unicode strings; consequently there is no \u escape and you were asking it literally to convert backslash-letter-u sequences in the input.

To get rid of non-breaking space characters you would have to replace away \xA0 (if done over the ISO-8859-1 data you presumably have before passing to utf8_encode), or \xC2\xA0 (if done after transcoding to UTF-8).

utf8_encode only transcodes ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, it doesn't touch spaces, so my suspicion is you have non-breaking space characters in your actual data.

Answer 2

json_decode error, cause non breaking space (\xc2\xa0)

before json_decoding, do this ...

     $data = str_replace("\xc2\xa0",'',$data)
     $json = json_decode($data);

Answer 3

Try this

$str = trim($str, chr(0xC2).chr(0xA0))