note 85008 modified in function.file-get-contents by felipe

From: Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:36:26 +0000
Subject: note 85008 modified in function.file-get-contents by felipe
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A UTF-8 issue I've encountered is that of reading a URL with a non-UTF-8 encoding that is later displayed improperly since file_get_contents() related to it as UTF-8. This small function should show you how to address this issue: <?php function file_get_contents_utf8($fn) { $content = file_get_contents($fn); return mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8', mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true)); } ?> --was-- A UTF-8 issue I've encountered is that of reading a URL with a non-UTF-8 encoding that is later displayed improperly since file_get_contents() related to it as UTF-8. This small function should show you how to address this issue: function file_get_contents_utf8($fn) { $content = file_get_contents($fn); return mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8', mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true)); } http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

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