Is there any built-in PHP-function to replace German “Umlaute”?

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

I have to replace Html-represantation of German "Umlaute" in php-code I do this like this:

Private function replaceHTMLEntities(&$str){
$str = str_replace('Ä',chr(196),$str); 
    $str = str_replace('Ö',chr(214),$str);
    $str = str_replace('Ü',chr(220),$str); 
    $str = str_replace('ä',chr(228),$str);
    $str = str_replace('ö',chr(246),$str);
    $str = str_replace('ü',chr(252),$str);
    $str = str_replace('ß',chr(223),$str);
}

Is there any inbuild-function in php to shorten this code?