Re: strange character

hadi wrote: > 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 Well, apparently these characters are invalid UTF-8 sequences, so trying to convert them to another character encoding is likely to fail. I'm not aware of a PHP function to strip invalid UTF-8 sequences that is built-in to PHP or one of the common extensions, but there are userland solutions available, for instance, utf8_bad_strip()[1]. [1] <http://phputf8.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/phputf8/utf8/utils/bad.php?view=markup&pathrev=MAIN> -- Christoph M. Becker