Re: Re: Detecting The Encoding Of A Text File

If windows notepad can detect encoding there must be a way to do it yourself. Maybe try to get the file's headers, I think it should also contain the encoding of the file... 2009/11/26 Nitsan Bin-Nun <nitsanbn@gmail.com> > Someone have already suggested it but I haven't tried it yet. > > The thing is that right now it contains Hebrew, but tommorrow this file > will > be in German or any other accented language. > I'm trying to create a function which would detect the encoding and convert > it into UTF8. > > (I don't have much experience in encoding.. :( ) > > 2009/11/26 Nisse Engström <news.NOSPAM.0ixbtqKe@luden.se> > > > On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:31 +0200, Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have been trying for the last couple of hours to determine the > > > encoding of a text file (.txt in windowz). > > > > > > I have this code: > > > > > > $contents = file_get_contents($config[' > > > txt_dir'] . $file); > > > $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($contents, > > > "UTF-8,ISO-8859-1,WINDOWS-1252"); //,Windows-1255 > > > > > > echo "||encoding:".$encoding."||"; > > > > > > if ($encoding == 'UTF-8') > > > { > > > $utfcontents = $contents; > > > } > > > else if ($encoding == 'ISO-8859-1') > > > { > > > $utfcontents = utf8_encode($contents); > > > } > > > > > > var_dump($utfcontents); > > > > > > The $encoding is ISO-8859-1, the text file contains Hebrew characters, > > then > > > I'm converting it to utf8. > > > > > > The above code is outputing gibbrish, it seems that it has converted it > > in > > > some way but not in the > > > proper way that it should have converted it. > > > > If you know that the file contains Hebrew, maybe you should > > try converting from ISO-8859-8? > > > > > > /Nisse > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- Use ROT26 for best security