Re: problems with utf-8 conversion

sudhir patil wrote: > I have csv file with special characters, stored in default encoding(ISO-8859-1). I am convert > file contents(string) to UTF-8using iconv. This doesn't convert special characters properly, > shows broken on fronted. Page encoding & meta tag are properly set to utf-8. > > Characters are shown properly on frontend if i save file encoding as utf-8(Using notepad). But > iconv doesn't convert characters properly to UTF-8. > > $value = iconv("Latin1","utf-8", $value); > having problem with below mentioned character > > ’ ’ ’ right single quotation mark > Any idea or suggestions to fix this would be helpful. > 1: try utf8_encode instead of iconv 2: check the headers being sent and that they include: "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8" as this normally overwrites and choice you make in html. a good way of debugging this is to view the page in firefox and see menu option "View -> Charecter Encoding -> xxxx"; the one presently selected is generally the pages "real" encoding, and you can flick between iso-8859-1 / utf-8 to see which one "fixes" your problem (then change headers accordingly). regards!