4serendipity - 12:33 am on Feb 16, 2012 (gmt 0)

You could try using a combination of str_replace() and chr()




$original = array(chr(10),
chr(13),
chr(147),
chr(148),
chr(151));

$fixed = array(" ",
" ",
'"',
'"',
'-');

return str_replace($original, $fixed, $input);