note 109036 deleted from function.iconv by danbrown

Note Submitter: orrd101 at gmail dot com ---- I mentioned in an earlier post that "//IGNORE" option doesn't work with recent versions of the iconv library because the PHP code still hasn't been updated to work with the new version. Here's a workaround (thanks to other who have mentioned mb_convert_encoding)... ini_set('mbstring.substitute_character', "none"); $text= mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8'); That will strip invalid characters from UTF-8 strings (so that you can insert it into a database, etc.). Instead of "none" you can also use the value 32 if you want it to insert spaces in place of the invalid characters.