strange character

From: Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 09:15:26 +0000
Subject: strange character
Groups: php.general 
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Hi, Im trying to use (iconv("UTF-8", 'CP1256//TRANSLIT', $rss);) to convert strange character like (–) to proper character, but im getting error I googled about it but never found anything about it. Here is the error Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in /var/www/html/rssfeed/sahafah.php on line 35

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