How to convert any possible format to UTF-8 using Iconv?

php utf-8 iconv
Rella picture Rella · May 10, 2010 · Viewed 30.3k times · Source

so for example this will turn 1251 into utf-8. 

$utf8 = iconv('windows-1251', 'utf-8', $ansi);

But how to turn unknown (when it comes to us we do not know yet what format it is) ( in general any ) format (possibly known by Iconv ) to utf-8? (code sample)

Answer

soulmerge picture soulmerge · May 10, 2010

You cannot translate from an unknown character set, the best you can do is make a guess about the actual charset and use that guess as first parameter - you can use mb_detect_encoding() for that purpose.

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