Re: convert (windows-1250) to (utf-8)
| From: | Tijnema | Date: | Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:50:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: convert (windows-1250) to (utf-8) | ||
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On 8/12/07, Alain Roger <raf.news@gmail.com> wrote:
> and why not :
> $out = iconv('windows-1250','UTF-8', $in); ???
>
> Alain
Did you test if that works? I doubt it, as windows-1250 isn't listed
on the homepage of libiconv:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
Tijnema
>
> On 8/12/07, brian <phplist@subtropolix.org> wrote:
> >
> > Alain Roger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I import a csv file (which includes characters from "windows-1250"
> > charset)
> > > to postgreSQL database which is in UTF-8.
> > > How can i convert windows-1250 to utf-8 charset ?
> > >
> >
> > Try the iconv functions:
> >
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php
> >
> > $out = iconv('ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8', $in);
> >
> > This page may be of use, as well:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250
> >
> > "Windows-1250 is *similar* to ISO-8859-2 ..."
> >
> > brian
> >
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