note 88567 deleted from function.iconv by thiago

Note Submitter: footballfreetv at gmail dot com ---- converting arabic characters to utf-8 and encode it again to utf-8 to use it with regex. this example works only with sites that provide windows-1256 charset (arabic characters) here is the example: $content = get_content("$url2"); // content $tmpContent=iconv("windows-1256", "utf-8", "$content"); //encoding the grabbed content and change it to utf-8 :D $encoded= utf8_encode($tmpContent); // now encode it again to utf8 format to start matching ;) $encoded_phrase=utf8_encode('مثال');//encode our phrase to match the encoded content $pattern='/"ftnh",(.*?),(.*?)'."($encoded_phrase)".'(.*?),/'; //this pattern will get all words near "the encoded word;" if(preg_match_all($pattern,$encoded,$out,PREG_PATTERN_ORDER)) { echo "topics found:<br>"; }