Re: strange character

That doesn't make sense to me. Send me the test file. Peter West "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here." > On 26 Feb 2015, at 1:49 am, hadi <almarzuki2011@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I did what you asked and here is the result. > Frist cmp, cmp test.txt test.utf8 give nothing output. > Second cmp, cmp test.txt test.1256 getting this result cmp: EOF on test.txt. > But im not understanding how this related to my php error what im getting. > > And thanks peter for standing with me in my issue. > What im trying to achieve here to remove the strange character by translating utf-8 to CP1256, > but unfortunately getting error from php (Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input > string in ) > > I did test on the strange character and its working prefect, but when it's come to > downloading rss feed, it give error. > > <?php > > $str = '(–)'; > > echo iconv("UTF-8", 'CP1256//TRANSLIT', $str); > ?> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Peter West [mailto:lists@pbw.id.au] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:49 PM >> To: hadi >> Cc: PHP General >> Subject: Re: [PHP] strange character >> >> If the file is really us-ascii, then there are no characters in that file with the >> 8th bit set, and you can do this: >> >> iconv -f ASCII -t UTF8 test.txt >test.utf8 iconv -f ASCII -t CP1256 test.txt >>> test.1256 cmp test.txt test.utf8 >> (should be no messages about differences.) cmp test.txt test.1256 >> (should be no messages about differences.) >> >> If that all works, then the test text you have is not the same as the text you >> have the problem with. If you have any problems with this sequence, tell us >> what they are. >> >> Peter West >> "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here." >> >>> On 25 Feb 2015, at 10:35 pm, hadi <almarzuki2011@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Im using linux centos. I have access to terminal. >>> >>> I did what you asked converting the test.txt to CP1256 And to verify >>> that I did, >>> >>> file -bi test.txt >>> >>> text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>> >>> not showing cp1256 encoding. But when I do, >>> >>> iconv -l | grep CP1256 >>> CP1256// >>> I get CP1256 encoding. >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Peter West [mailto:lists@pbw.id.au] >>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:11 PM >>>> To: hadi; PHP General >>>> Subject: Re: [PHP] strange character >>>> >>>>> On 25 Feb 2015, at 9:06 pm, hadi <almarzuki2011@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Peter, >>>>> >>>>> I want to convert from utf-8 to CP1256 so the strange character can >>>>> be >>>> fixed. >>>> >>>> I think it's either a) already in CP1256, or it's in some other >>>> character set altogether. The error message is telling you that it's not >> recognised as UTF-8. >>>> >>>> Do you have access to the iconv program in a terminal? If you are on >>>> a linux or OS X system, just open a terminal and type >>>> >>>> iconv --help >>>> >>>> If you have iconv installed you will get a help message. >>>> >>>> Get the text you are trying to convert into a text file, and just try >>>> various conversions using iconv, until it looks right. Let's say >>>> your text is in the file unknown.txt. >>>> >>>> iconv -l >>>> >>>> will list all of the character sets that iconv knows about. Find the >>>> likely candidates and just try >>>> >>>> iconv -t UTF8 -f CP1252 unknown.txt >>>> iconv -t UTF8 -f CP1256 unknown.txt >>>> iconv -t UTF8 -f CP1254 unknown.txt >>>> >>>> etc, until it looks right. >>>> >>>> Peter West >>>> "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here." >>>> >>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: Peter West [mailto:lists@pbw.id.au] >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 1:46 PM >>>>>> To: hadi >>>>>> Subject: Re: [PHP] strange character >>>>>> >>>>>> Aren't you going the wrong way? It looks as though the text you >>>>>> are trying to convert is one of the 8-bit character sets. From >>>>>> these sets you get bad characters because a character with the >>>>>> MSBit set will be interpreted by a >>>>>> UTF-8 system as a multi-byte character. >>>>>> >>>>>> Which way do you want to go: from CP1256 to UTF-8 or vice versa? >>>>>> >>>>>> Peter West >>>>>> "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here." >>>>>> >>>>>>> On 25 Feb 2015, at 7:15 pm, hadi <almarzuki2011@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: >>>>>>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: >>>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >