Re: Problem changing file encoding

On 22 Oct 2008 at 14:39, Thodoris wrote: > Hi guys, > I am developing a project and I wrote an interface to import contracts > in it. The problem is that when the user uploads the file I don't know > what is the encoding it has. So I decided that a good idea is to make > the user tell me the encoding from a drop down before I parse the file. > > Then I could probably change the encoding with iconv and use it to > validate the data and make the inserts in mysql. Although in the unix > world I have available the iconv command and I can change the file to > the new encoding like this: > > iconv -f CP737 -t UTF-8 -o newfile.csv original_file.csv > > I can't find a way to do this from within php. Iconv support gives me > some options but only to convert strings and there is not a way AFAIK to > get all the supported encodings from the system as I can do in command > line with this: > > iconv --list > > Is this the best way to do this ? Can I use mbstring as an alternative ? > > Please make any suggestions you might think because I am stuck. Hi, I assume there is a reason why can't just run the command above from php? Regards Ian --