Someone have already suggested it but I haven't tried it yet.
The thing is that right now it contains Hebrew, but tommorrow this file will
be in German or any other accented language.
I'm trying to create a function which would detect the encoding and convert
it into UTF8.
(I don't have much experience in encoding.. :( )
2009/11/26 Nisse Engström <news.nospam.0ixbt...@luden.se>
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:31 +0200, Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been trying for the last couple of hours to determine the
> > encoding of a text file (.txt in windowz).
> >
> > I have this code:
> >
> > $contents = file_get_contents($config['
> > txt_dir'] . $file);
> > $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($contents,
> > "UTF-8,ISO-8859-1,WINDOWS-1252"); //,Windows-1255
> >
> > echo "||encoding:".$encoding."||";
> >
> > if ($encoding == 'UTF-8')
> > {
> > $utfcontents = $contents;
> > }
> > else if ($encoding == 'ISO-8859-1')
> > {
> > $utfcontents = utf8_encode($contents);
> > }
> >
> > var_dump($utfcontents);
> >
> > The $encoding is ISO-8859-1, the text file contains Hebrew characters,
> then
> > I'm converting it to utf8.
> >
> > The above code is outputing gibbrish, it seems that it has converted it
> in
> > some way but not in the
> > proper way that it should have converted it.
>
> If you know that the file contains Hebrew, maybe you should
> try converting from ISO-8859-8?
>
>
> /Nisse
>
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