Re: Problem when encoding non-english into UTF-8
| From: | Jasper Bryant-Greene | Date: | Tue, 16 Aug 2005 03:48:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Problem when encoding non-english into UTF-8 | ||
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Wong HoWang wrote:
Dear all, When I try to encode non-english char. such as big5 to UTF-8 with utf8_encode(), it always generate a wrong result, which is not readable. What can I do?From the manual [1]: utf8_encode -- Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 You're using the wrong tool for the job. Take a look at the iconv extension[2]. Jasper [1] http://www.php.net/utf8_encode [2] http://www.php.net/iconv