PHP Convert Windows-1251 to UTF 8

user2058653 picture user2058653 · Mar 29, 2013 · Viewed 75.1k times · Source

I have a small html code and I need to convert it to UTF-8.
I use this iconv("windows-1251", "utf-8", $html);

All text converts correctly, but if text for example in tag <i>...</i>, then it don't convert text and I see somethig like this Показать мн

Answer

Jeff Cashion PhD picture Jeff Cashion PhD · Mar 29, 2013

If you have access to the Multibye package, you can try it. See the PHP page here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php

$html_utf8 = mb_convert_encoding($html, "utf-8", "windows-1251");