Find out encoding of a file with php, and convert it to UTF-8 encoding

[Matthias Langbein]

Hi all,

in my script I need to find out the encoding of a file and in case it
is not of the kind UTF-8 I need to convert it to that format.

Any hints??

Thanks

[Benjamin Esham]

Re: Find out encoding of a file with php, and convert it to UTF-8 encoding

Matthias Langbein wrote:

in my script I need to find out the encoding of a file and in case it is
not of the kind UTF-8 I need to convert it to that format.

Something in http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.iconv.php should be able to
help you.

HTH,
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