Convert utf8-characters to iso-88591 and back in PHP

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Some of my script are using different encoding  and when I try to combine them  this has becom an issue   But I can t change the encoding they use  instead I want to change the encodig of the result from script A  and use it as parameter in script B    So  is there any simple way to change a string from UTF-8 to ISO-88591 in PHP  I have looked at utf encode and  decode  but they doesn t do what i want  Why doesn t there exsist any  utf2iso   -function  or similar   I don t think I have characters that can t be written in ISO-format  so that shouldn t be an huge issue

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First of all  don t use different encodings  It leads to a mess  and UTF-8 is definitely the one you should be using everywhere   Chances are your input is not ISO-8859-1  but something else  ISO-8859-15  Windows-1252   To convert from those  use iconv or mb convert encoding   Nevertheless  utf8 encode and utf8 decode should work for ISO-8859-1  It would be nice if you could post a link to a file or a uuencoded or base64 example string for which the conversion fails or yields unexpected results

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set meta tag in head as     lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset ISO-8859-1    gt     use the link http   www i18nqa com debug utf8-debug html to replace the symbols character you want   then use str replace like       find   array                                                                                                                    en dash                          replace   array                                                                           content   str replace  find   replace   content     Its the method i use and help alot  Thanks

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Have a look at iconv   or mb convert encoding    Just by the way  why don t utf8 encode   and utf8 decode   work for you      utf8 decode      Converts a string with   ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with   UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1      utf8 encode     Encodes an ISO-8859-1   string to UTF-8   So essentially   utf8                file must be UTF-8 encoded  iso88591 1   utf8 decode  utf8    iso88591 2   iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1    utf8    iso88591 2   mb convert encoding  utf8   ISO-8859-1    UTF-8      iso88591                file must be ISO-8859-1 encoded  utf8 1   utf8 encode  iso88591    utf8 2   iconv  ISO-8859-1    UTF-8    iso88591    utf8 2   mb convert encoding  iso88591   UTF-8    ISO-8859-1      all should do the same - with utf8 en decode   requiring no special extension  mb convert encoding   requiring ext mbstring and iconv   requiring ext iconv

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I use this function   function formatcell  data   num   fill             data   trim  data        data str replace chr 13       data        data str replace chr 10       data          translate UTF8 to English characters      data   iconv  UTF-8    ASCII  TRANSLIT    data        data   preg replace                i        data            fill it up with spaces     for   i   strlen  data    i  lt   num   i               data     fill               limit string to num characters     data   substr  data  0   num        return  data      echo formatcell  YES UTF8 String Z  rich   25   x      YES UTF8 String Z    richxxx echo formatcell  NON UTF8 String Zurich   25   x      NON UTF8 String Zurichxxx   Check out my function in my blog http   www unexpectedit com php php-handling-non-english-characters-utf8

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First of all  don t use different encodings  It leads to a mess  and UTF-8 is definitely the one you should be using everywhere   Chances are your input is not ISO-8859-1  but something else  ISO-8859-15  Windows-1252   To convert from those  use iconv or mb convert encoding   Nevertheless  utf8 encode and utf8 decode should work for ISO-8859-1  It would be nice if you could post a link to a file or a uuencoded or base64 example string for which the conversion fails or yields unexpected results

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I used   function utf8 to html   data        return preg replace          array                                                                                                                                             array                 amp auml                  amp ouml                  amp uuml                  amp eacute                  amp agrave                  amp egrave                       data

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First of all  don t use different encodings  It leads to a mess  and UTF-8 is definitely the one you should be using everywhere   Chances are your input is not ISO-8859-1  but something else  ISO-8859-15  Windows-1252   To convert from those  use iconv or mb convert encoding   Nevertheless  utf8 encode and utf8 decode should work for ISO-8859-1  It would be nice if you could post a link to a file or a uuencoded or base64 example string for which the conversion fails or yields unexpected results

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Have a look at iconv   or mb convert encoding    Just by the way  why don t utf8 encode   and utf8 decode   work for you      utf8 decode      Converts a string with   ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with   UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1      utf8 encode     Encodes an ISO-8859-1   string to UTF-8   So essentially   utf8                file must be UTF-8 encoded  iso88591 1   utf8 decode  utf8    iso88591 2   iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1    utf8    iso88591 2   mb convert encoding  utf8   ISO-8859-1    UTF-8      iso88591                file must be ISO-8859-1 encoded  utf8 1   utf8 encode  iso88591    utf8 2   iconv  ISO-8859-1    UTF-8    iso88591    utf8 2   mb convert encoding  iso88591   UTF-8    ISO-8859-1      all should do the same - with utf8 en decode   requiring no special extension  mb convert encoding   requiring ext mbstring and iconv   requiring ext iconv

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You need to use the iconv package  specifically its iconv function

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Use html entity decode   and htmlentities      html   html entity decode htmlentities  html  ENT QUOTES   UTF-8    ENT QUOTES    ISO-8859-1      htmlentities   formats your input into UTF8 and html entity decode   formats it back to ISO-8859-1

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In my case after files with names containing those characters were uploaded  they were not even visible with Filezilla  In Cpanel filemanager they were shown with    under black background   And this combination made it shown correctly on the browser  HTML document is Western-encoded     dspFileName   utf8 decode htmlspecialchars iconv mb internal encoding     utf-8   basename  thisFile  path

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set meta tag in head as     lt meta http-equiv  Content-Type  content  text html  charset ISO-8859-1    gt     use the link http   www i18nqa com debug utf8-debug html to replace the symbols character you want   then use str replace like       find   array                                                                                                                    en dash                          replace   array                                                                           content   str replace  find   replace   content     Its the method i use and help alot  Thanks

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function parseUtf8ToIso88591  amp  string        if  is null  string                 iso88591 1   utf8 decode  string                iso88591 2   iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1    string                string   mb convert encoding  string   ISO-8859-1    UTF-8

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Use html entity decode   and htmlentities      html   html entity decode htmlentities  html  ENT QUOTES   UTF-8    ENT QUOTES    ISO-8859-1      htmlentities   formats your input into UTF8 and html entity decode   formats it back to ISO-8859-1

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First of all  don t use different encodings  It leads to a mess  and UTF-8 is definitely the one you should be using everywhere   Chances are your input is not ISO-8859-1  but something else  ISO-8859-15  Windows-1252   To convert from those  use iconv or mb convert encoding   Nevertheless  utf8 encode and utf8 decode should work for ISO-8859-1  It would be nice if you could post a link to a file or a uuencoded or base64 example string for which the conversion fails or yields unexpected results

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It is much better to use    value   mb convert encode  value  HTML-ENTITIES   UTF-8      Specially when you are using AJAX call for submitting  ISO-8859-1  characters  It works for Chinese  Japanese  Czech  German and many more languages

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function parseUtf8ToIso88591  amp  string        if  is null  string                 iso88591 1   utf8 decode  string                iso88591 2   iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1    string                string   mb convert encoding  string   ISO-8859-1    UTF-8

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Have a look at iconv   or mb convert encoding    Just by the way  why don t utf8 encode   and utf8 decode   work for you      utf8 decode      Converts a string with   ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with   UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1      utf8 encode     Encodes an ISO-8859-1   string to UTF-8   So essentially   utf8                file must be UTF-8 encoded  iso88591 1   utf8 decode  utf8    iso88591 2   iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1    utf8    iso88591 2   mb convert encoding  utf8   ISO-8859-1    UTF-8      iso88591                file must be ISO-8859-1 encoded  utf8 1   utf8 encode  iso88591    utf8 2   iconv  ISO-8859-1    UTF-8    iso88591    utf8 2   mb convert encoding  iso88591   UTF-8    ISO-8859-1      all should do the same - with utf8 en decode   requiring no special extension  mb convert encoding   requiring ext mbstring and iconv   requiring ext iconv

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You need to use the iconv package  specifically its iconv function

User · Answer

You need to use the iconv package  specifically its iconv function

User · Answer

It is much better to use    value   mb convert encode  value  HTML-ENTITIES   UTF-8      Specially when you are using AJAX call for submitting  ISO-8859-1  characters  It works for Chinese  Japanese  Czech  German and many more languages

User · Answer

I use this function   function formatcell  data   num   fill             data   trim  data        data str replace chr 13       data        data str replace chr 10       data          translate UTF8 to English characters      data   iconv  UTF-8    ASCII  TRANSLIT    data        data   preg replace                i        data            fill it up with spaces     for   i   strlen  data    i  lt   num   i               data     fill               limit string to num characters     data   substr  data  0   num        return  data      echo formatcell  YES UTF8 String Z  rich   25   x      YES UTF8 String Z    richxxx echo formatcell  NON UTF8 String Zurich   25   x      NON UTF8 String Zurichxxx   Check out my function in my blog http   www unexpectedit com php php-handling-non-english-characters-utf8

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Have a look at iconv   or mb convert encoding    Just by the way  why don t utf8 encode   and utf8 decode   work for you      utf8 decode      Converts a string with   ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with   UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1      utf8 encode     Encodes an ISO-8859-1   string to UTF-8   So essentially   utf8                file must be UTF-8 encoded  iso88591 1   utf8 decode  utf8    iso88591 2   iconv  UTF-8    ISO-8859-1    utf8    iso88591 2   mb convert encoding  utf8   ISO-8859-1    UTF-8      iso88591                file must be ISO-8859-1 encoded  utf8 1   utf8 encode  iso88591    utf8 2   iconv  ISO-8859-1    UTF-8    iso88591    utf8 2   mb convert encoding  iso88591   UTF-8    ISO-8859-1      all should do the same - with utf8 en decode   requiring no special extension  mb convert encoding   requiring ext mbstring and iconv   requiring ext iconv

User · Answer

You need to use the iconv package  specifically its iconv function

User · Answer

I used   function utf8 to html   data        return preg replace          array                                                                                                                                             array                 amp auml                  amp ouml                  amp uuml                  amp eacute                  amp agrave                  amp egrave                       data

User · Answer

In my case after files with names containing those characters were uploaded  they were not even visible with Filezilla  In Cpanel filemanager they were shown with    under black background   And this combination made it shown correctly on the browser  HTML document is Western-encoded     dspFileName   utf8 decode htmlspecialchars iconv mb internal encoding     utf-8   basename  thisFile  path

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