note 68480 added to function.str-replace

I had some problems with the function
"remove_accents" by joaquin at metaltoad dot
com. The problem was that it changed every encoded char,
even encoded chars like > (output was g, because the
first char after the & is taken).
I changed it a little bit, it works fine now.

<?php
function replace_accents($str) {
  $str = htmlentities($str);
  $str =
preg_replace('/&([a-zA-Z])(uml|acute|grave|circ|tilde);
/','$1',$str);
  return html_entity_decode($str);
}
?>

Example:
<?php
$str = "äöü ÄÖÜ àéè ÀÉÈ Text
&%*'\\" <>";
$str = replace_accents($str);
echo $str; // prints "aou AOU aee AEE Text
&%*'" <>"
?>

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