RE: [PHP] strange character

Here is the attach file. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter West [mailto:lists@pbw.id.au] > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 1:07 AM > To: hadi > Cc: PHP General > Subject: Re: [PHP] 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 > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php