exorcise the mind of zalgo from a text file

dezalgo.php

## install composer
# mkdir dezalgo ; cd dezalgo
## place dezalgo.php (this file) into the new directory
# composer require mdwheele/zalgo
# php dezalgo.php --infile MyBestIRCLog --outfile MySafeIRCLog

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
use Zalgo\Mood;
use Zalgo\Soul;
use Zalgo\Zalgo;

$shortopts  = "";
$shortopts .= "i:"; 
$shortopts .= "o:"; 
$shortopts .= "v::";

$longopts  = array(
    "infile:", 
    "outfile:", 
    "verbose::", 
);

$options = getopt($shortopts, $longopts);

if (!(isset($options['infile']) && (isset($options['outfile'])))) {
    print("Error: --infile <file> and --outfile <file> command line options are required.\n");
    exit(1);
}

$infile = $options['infile'];
$outfile = $options['outfile'];

$v = 0;
if (isset($options['verbose'])) {
    $v = 1;
}

$v && printf("using infile: %s and outfile: %s\n", $infile, $outfile);

$soothed = new Zalgo(new Soul(), Mood::soothed());
$out = fopen($outfile, "w");
$in = fopen($infile, "r");
if ($in) {
    while (($line = fgets($in)) !== false) {
        $clean = $soothed->soothe($line);
	$origlen = mb_strlen($line,'UTF-8');
	$cleanlen = mb_strlen($clean,'UTF-8');
	$delta = $origlen - $cleanlen;
	if ($v && ($delta > 0)) {
	    printf("cleaned %d bytes for %s", $delta, $clean);
	};
	fwrite($out, $clean);
    }
    fclose($in);
    fclose($out);
} else {
    printf("couldn't open infile: %s",$infile);
} 

?>

andre@youbeill[work/dezalgo]echo ".\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n" ; head -n 1 ~/work/bad.txt ; echo ".\n.\n.\n.\n.\n.\n"
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1 21:32 < RyuKojiro> N̬͙͕̯͇̼̭͇̖͍̘̲̑̅ͣͧ͛̈́̽͌͆ͨ̐̄̀̋ͥ̓̏̚I̠͚̗̟̓ͫ̆̌̍͂͋̎͐̈́C̦͇̯̝̣̬͈͖͊̒̃̏͒ͩ͆ͦ̋ͪ͗̾̑̄͑͌͛ͅO̙͓̙̰̘̮͇͖̺̐̑͛̏̊ͣͧ̾̂̆̅͆ͫ̃̊̆ͧ́ͧO̞̖̲̝̣̯̠̹͎̲͈̐ͬ͛͐̀̌͋̉̄͛ͦ̽̀̓̓Ô͖̪̤̭̟̬̪̥̭̹̏̒͗͋̓͊O͓̤̪̦ͨ̍̃̂̒̑̓͑̈ͬ̒̂́̀͒̓͋̚O̭̬̩̙̗͍̜̹͔̭̱̼̟̟̪̙̿ͣ͑̒̃̆͋ͬ̂̔ͪͅͅO͔̰̦͉̘͙̤̐̆̀̏̒ͪĎ͆̇͒̀͛͑̇ͮ͋́̃͂?
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andre@youbeill[work/dezalgo]
andre@youbeill[work/dezalgo]php dezalgo.php --infile ~/work/bad.txt --outfile testout --verbose
using infile: /home/andre/work/bad.txt and outfile: testout
cleaned 218 bytes for 1 21:32 < RyuKojiro> NICOOOOOOD?