note 39549 added to function.mb-convert-encoding

be careful when converting from iso-8859-1 to utf-8. even if you explicitly specify the character encoding of a page as iso-8859-1(via headers and strict xml defs), windows 2000 will ignore that and interpret it as whatever character set it has natively installed. for example, i wrote char #128 into a page, with char encoding iso-8859-1, and it displayed in internet explorer (& mozilla) as a euro symbol. it should have displayed a box, denoting that char #128 is undefined in iso-8859-1. The problem was it was displaying in "Windows: western europe" (my native character set). this led to confusion when i tried to convert this euro to UTF-8 via mb_convert_encoding() IE displays UTF-8 correctly- and because PHP correctly converted #128 into a box in UTF-8, IE would show a box. so all i saw was mb_convert_encoding() converting a euro symbol into a box. It took me a long time to figure out what was going on. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+39549 Delete -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+39549&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+39549&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php