Re: mb_convert_encoding converting to ASCII instead of UTF-8

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Robert William Vesterman <bob@digitalarts.com> wrote: > I've run into a problem where mb_convert_encoding seems to be converting to > ASCII, even though I'm telling it to convert to UTF-8. This is with PHP > version 4.3.11. > > I had been asking it to convert from "auto" to UTF-8, so at first I thought > maybe "auto" was not the right choice. So I called "mb_detect_encoding" to > see the format of what I was trying to convert; it said it was already UTF-8 > (before I did the conversion). > So then I thought maybe I got the "from" and "to" parameters backwards > (although I was confident I was following the documentation), so I changed > mb_convert_encoding to use "UTF-8" as /both/ the from and to. > > It still converts to ASCII. > > I understand that, given that it's already UTF-8, I don't need to convert > it to UTF-8. But other things that I receive might /not/ be UTF-8, so I am > still concerned with this. > > Sample code: > > <html><head><title>Minnie</title></head><body><p> > <?php > $x = $_REQUEST['Minnie']; > echo $x . ' ... ' . mb_detect_encoding ( $x ) . '<br/>'; > $x = mb_convert_encoding ( $x, "UTF-8", "UTF-8" ); > echo $x . ' ... ' . mb_detect_encoding ( $x ) . '<br/>'; > ?> > </p></body></html> > > Output, when called with URL parameter "Minnie=Miñoso": > > Miñoso ... UTF-8 > Mioso ... ASCII > > Then I changed the "from" so that I could try converting from something > other than UTF-8: > > $x = mb_convert_encoding ( $x, "UTF-8", mb_detect_encoding ( $x ) ); > > And now, output when called with "Minnie=Mouse": > > Mouse ... ASCII > Mouse ... ASCII > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? Am I doing something wrong? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > #1 Upgrade your php version. Yours is over 3 years old [1]. #2 Maybe something here [2] will help you. [1] http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php#4.3.11 [2] http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/charsets