Function utf8_strip_specials

Removes special characters (nonalphanumeric) from a UTF-8 string

This can be useful as a helper for sanitizing a string for use as something like a file name or a unique identifier. Be warned though it does not handle all possible non-alphanumeric characters and is not intended is some kind of security / injection filter.

Package: utf8
Author: Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
See: utf8_specials_pattern()
Located at vendor/joomla/string/src/phputf8/utils/specials.php

Parameters summary

`string`	`$string`	The UTF8 string to strip of special chars
`string`	`$repl = ''`	(optional) $repl Replace special with this string

Return value summary

`string`	with common non-alphanumeric characters removed