I'm trying to convert a cyrillic 1251 to utf-8.
Given String: Íó è ÿ ñäåëàëà âûâîäû...
Expected String: Ну и я сделала выводы...
What I've tried so far:
echo iconv('CP1251', 'UTF-8', 'Íó è ÿ ñäåëàëà âûâîäû...');
or
echo mb_convert_encoding('Íó è ÿ ñäåëàëà âûâîäû...', 'UTF-8', 'CP1251');
The result I got:
Íó è ÿ ñäåëà ëà âûâîäû...
Any ideas how I could make it work?
What you have is a UTF8 string made up of cp1252 characters which are a misrepresentation of cp1251.
The true answer is to fix what produced this mistake so that your data doesn't get corrupted like this.
The worse answer is to repeat the mis-translation in reverse to recover the original string, and then convert it properly.
$input = 'Íó è ÿ ñäåëàëà âûâîäû...';
// convert back to source string via CP1252 single-byte encoding
$out = mb_convert_encoding($input, 'CP1252', 'UTF-8');
// correctly convert source string to UTF8 using CP1251
$out = mb_convert_encoding($out, 'UTF-8', 'CP1251');
var_dump($st2);
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i don't have any chance to get a valid utf-8 as output...
$fx = file_get_contents("Extended Ascii file.txt"); // example only has chr(129), but could be mixed Extended Ascii + UTF8
// not working:
//$fx = html_entity_decode($fx, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8");
//$fx = mb_convert_encoding($fx, 'UTF-8', 'ASCII');
//$fx = utf8_encode($fx);
//$fx = iconv('ASCII', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $fx);
echo '"chr('.ord($fx[0]).')"=>"'.$fx[0].'"<br><br>'; // result: "chr(129)"=>"�"
$fx = strtr($fx, [chr(128)=>'Ç',chr(129)=>'ü',chr(130)=>'é',chr(131)=>'â',chr(132)=>'ä',chr(133)=>'à',chr(134)=>'å',chr(135)=>'ç',chr(136)=>'ê',chr(137)=>'ë',chr(138)=>'è',chr(139)=>'ï',chr(140)=>'î',chr(141)=>'ì',chr(142)=>'Ä',chr(143)=>'Å',chr(144)=>'É',chr(145)=>'æ',chr(146)=>'Æ',chr(147)=>'ô',chr(148)=>'ö',chr(149)=>'ò',chr(150)=>'û',chr(151)=>'ù',chr(152)=>'ÿ',chr(153)=>'Ö',chr(154)=>'Ü',chr(155)=>'ø',chr(156)=>'£',chr(157)=>'Ø',chr(158)=>'×',chr(159)=>'ƒ',chr(160)=>'á',chr(161)=>'í',chr(162)=>'ó',chr(163)=>'ú',chr(164)=>'ñ',chr(165)=>'Ñ',chr(166)=>'ª',chr(167)=>'º',chr(168)=>'¿',chr(169)=>'®',chr(170)=>'¬',chr(171)=>'½',chr(172)=>'¼',chr(173)=>'¡',chr(174)=>'«',chr(175)=>'»',chr(176)=>'░',chr(177)=>'▒',chr(178)=>'▓',chr(179)=>'│',chr(180)=>'┤',chr(181)=>'Á',chr(182)=>'Â',chr(183)=>'À',chr(184)=>'©',chr(185)=>'╣',chr(186)=>'║',chr(187)=>'╗',chr(188)=>'╝',chr(189)=>'¢',chr(190)=>'¥',chr(191)=>'┐',chr(192)=>'└',chr(193)=>'┴',chr(194)=>'┬',chr(195)=>'├',chr(196)=>'─',chr(197)=>'┼',chr(198)=>'ã',chr(199)=>'Ã',chr(200)=>'╚',chr(201)=>'╔',chr(202)=>'╩',chr(203)=>'╦',chr(204)=>'╠',chr(205)=>'═',chr(206)=>'╬',chr(207)=>'¤',chr(208)=>'ð',chr(209)=>'Ð',chr(210)=>'Ê',chr(211)=>'Ë',chr(212)=>'È',chr(213)=>'ı',chr(214)=>'Í',chr(215)=>'Î',chr(216)=>'Ï',chr(217)=>'┘',chr(218)=>'┌',chr(219)=>'█',chr(220)=>'▄',chr(221)=>'¦',chr(222)=>'Ì',chr(223)=>'▀',chr(224)=>'Ó',chr(225)=>'ß',chr(226)=>'Ô',chr(227)=>'Ò',chr(228)=>'õ',chr(229)=>'Õ',chr(230)=>'µ',chr(231)=>'þ',chr(232)=>'Þ',chr(233)=>'Ú',chr(234)=>'Û',chr(235)=>'Ù',chr(236)=>'ý',chr(237)=>'Ý',chr(238)=>'¯',chr(239)=>'´',chr(240)=>'≡',chr(241)=>'±',chr(242)=>'‗',chr(243)=>'¾',chr(244)=>'¶',chr(245)=>'§',chr(246)=>'÷',chr(247)=>'¸',chr(248)=>'°',chr(249)=>'¨',chr(250)=>'·',chr(251)=>'¹',chr(252)=>'³',chr(253)=>'²',chr(254)=>'■',chr(255)=>'nbsp']);
echo '"chr('.ord($fx[0]).')"=>"'.$fx[0].'"<br><br>'; // result: "chr(195)"=>"�"
How to convert or remove � ?
28.05.2020 Update: Solution found, thanks to Andrea Pollini!
Some notes:
iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $fx); // IGNORE is broken in PHP since - https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php#108643 - use mb_convert_encoding
Here was my real problem (i figured it out later after many tests):
$P["T"] .= $text; // here was the problem, array is converting strings... (don't know why?)
changed to:
ini_set('mbstring.substitute_character', "none"); // mb_convert_encoding set remove unknown
$P["T"] .= mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');
Now it's working. But if somebody knows why arrays are converting strings and how to disable that, would be great. :)
first configure in order to discard extended characters
<?php
ini_set('mbstring.substitute_character', "none");
?>
next you can use mb_convert_encoding
mb_convert_encoding($fx, "UTF-8", mb_detect_encoding($fx, "UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15", true));
you can add the encoding you need in mb_detect_encoding
I am new to encoding so please be patient.
I am working on a system where a user upload a csv, what i need to do is to display the content and then save it in the database. (utf-8 encoding)
I have been asked to fix a issue with some french alphabet characters that weren't displayed correctly. I have almost solved the problem, I am displaying characters such as
ÀàÂâÆÄäÇçÉéÈèÊêËëÎîÏïÔôœÖöÙùÛûÜüÿ
However the two mentioned in the title ٠Πare not displayed correctly yet on the webpage.
Here is my php code so far:
// say in the csv we have "ÖüÜߟÀàÂ"
$content = file_get_contents(addslashes($file_name));
var_dump($content) // output: string(54) "���ߟ��� "
if(!mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true)){
$data = iconv('macintosh', 'UTF-8', $content);
}
// deal with known encoding types
else if(mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true) == 'ISO-8859-1'){
//$data = mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8', mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true)); // does not work
$data = iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $content); //does not work
}else if(mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true) == 'UTF-8'){
$data = $content
}
//if i print $data "٠Π" are not printed out... they got lost somewhere
//do more stuff here
the file I am dealing with has an encoding type of ISO-8859-1(when i print out mb_detect_encoding($content, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true) it displays ISO-8859-1).
Is there anyone that have an idea on how to deal with this special cases?
The characters Ÿ and Œ are not representable in ISO-8859-1. It seems that the incoming data is actually windows-1252 (Windows Latin 1) encoded, since windows-1252 has graphic characters, including Ÿ and Œ, in some code positions that are reserved for control characters in ISO-8859-1.
So you should probably add windows-1252 to the list of recognized encodings and treat recognized ISO-8859-1 as windows-1252, i.e use iconv('windows-1252', 'UTF-8', $content) even when ISO-8859-1 has bee recognized. Windows-1252 data mislabeled as ISO-8859-1 is very common.
I'm trying to detect the character encoding of a string but I can't get the right result.
For example:
$str = "€ ‚ ƒ „ …" ;
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'Windows-1252' ,'HTML-ENTITIES') ;
// Now $str should be a Windows-1252-encoded string.
// Let's detect its encoding:
echo mb_detect_encoding($str,'Windows-1252, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8') ;
That code outputs ISO-8859-1 but it should be Windows-1252.
What's wrong with this?
EDIT:
Updated example, in response to #raina77ow.
$str = "€‚ƒ„…" ; // no white-spaces
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'Windows-1252' ,'HTML-ENTITIES') ;
$str = "Hello $str" ; // let's add some ascii characters
echo mb_detect_encoding($str,'Windows-1252, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8') ;
I get the wrong result again.
The problem with Windows-1252 in PHP is that it will almost never be detected, because as soon as your text contains any characters outside of 0x80 to 0x9f, it will not be detected as Windows-1252.
This means that if your string contains a normal ASCII letter like "A", or even a space character, PHP will say that this is not valid Windows-1252 and, in your case, fall back to the next possible encoding, which is ISO 8859-1. This is a PHP bug, see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64667.
Although strings encoded with ISO-8859-1 and CP-1252 have different byte code representation:
<?php
$str = "€ ‚ ƒ „ …" ;
foreach (array('Windows-1252', 'ISO-8859-1') as $encoding)
{
$new = mb_convert_encoding($str, $encoding, 'HTML-ENTITIES');
printf('%15s: %s detected: %10s explicitly: %10s',
$encoding,
implode('', array_map(function($x) { return dechex(ord($x)); }, str_split($new))),
mb_detect_encoding($new),
mb_detect_encoding($new, array('ISO-8859-1', 'Windows-1252'))
);
echo PHP_EOL;
}
Results:
Windows-1252: 802082208320842085 detected: explicitly: ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-1: 3f203f203f203f203f detected: ASCII explicitly: ISO-8859-1
...from what we can see here it looks like there is problem with second paramater of mb_detect_encoding. Using mb_detect_order instead of parameter yields very similar results.
I am trying to preg_replace the multibytecharacter for euro in UTF (shown as ⬠in my html) to a "$" and the * for an "#"
$orig = "2 **** reviews ⬠19,99 price";
$orig = mb_ereg_replace(mb_convert_encoding('€', 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'), "$", $orig);
$orig = preg_replace("/[\$\;\?\!\{\}\(\)\[\]\/\*\>\<]/", "#", $orig);
$a = htmlentities($orig);
$b = html_entity_decode($a);
The "*" are being replaced but not the "â¬" .......
Also tried to replace it with
$orig = preg_replace("/[\xe2\x82\xac]/", "$", $orig);
Doesn't convert either....
Another plan which didnt work:
$orig= mb_ereg_replace(mb_convert_encoding('€', 'UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES'), "$", $orig);
Brrr someone knows how to get rid of this utf8 euro character:
echo html_entity_decode('€');
(driving me nuts)
This could be caused by two reasons:
The actual source text is UTF8 encoded, but your PHP code not.
You can solve this by just using this line and save your file UTF8 encoded (try using notepad++).
str_replace('€', '$', $source);
The source text is corrupted: multibyte characters are converted to latin1 (wrong database charset?). You can try to convert them back to latin1:
str_replace('€', '$', utf8_decode($source))
Pasting my comment here as an answer so you can mark it!
Wouldn't
str_replace(html_entity_decode('€'), '$', $source)
work?
In your $orig string you do not have euro sign.
When I run this php file:
<?php
$orig = "â¬";
for($i=0; $i<strlen($orig); $i++)
echo '0x' . dechex(ord($orig{$i})) . ' ';
?>
If saved as utf-8 I get: 0xc3 0xa2 0xc2 0xac
If saved as latin-1 I get: 0xe2 0xac
In any case it is not € sign which is:0xE2 0x82 0xAC or unicode \u20AC ( http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/20ac/index.htm ).
0x82 is missing!!!!!
Run this program above, see what do you get and use this hex values to get rid of â¬.
For real € sign this works:
<?php
$orig = html_entity_decode('€', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
$dest = preg_replace('~\x{20ac}~u', '$', $orig);
echo "($orig) ($dest)";
?>
BTW if UTF-8 file containing € is displayed as latin-1 you should get:
€ and not ⬠as in your example.
So in fact, you have problems with encoding and conversion between encodings. If you try to save € in latin1 middle character will be lost (for example my Komodo will alert me and then replace ‚ with ?). In other words, you somehow damaged your € sign - and then you tried to replace it as it was complete. :D
I'm trying to convert a string from iso-8859-1 to utf-8.
But when I find these two charachter € and • the function returns
a charachter that is a square with two number inside.
How can I solve this issue?
I think the encoding you are looking for is Windows code page 1252 (Western European). It is not the same as ISO-8859-1 (or 8859-15 for that matter); the characters in the range 0xA0-0xFF match 8859-1, but cp1252 adds an assortment of extra characters in the range 0x80-0x9F where ISO-8859-1 assigns little-used control codes.
The confusion comes about because when you serve a page as text/html;charset=iso-8859-1, for historical reasons, browsers actually use cp1252 (and will hence submit forms in cp1252 too).
iconv('cp1252', 'utf-8', "\x80 and \x95")
-> "\xe2\x82\xac and \xe2\x80\xa2"
Always check your encoding first! You should never blindly trust your encoding (even if it is from your own website!):
function convert_cp1252_to_utf8($input, $default = '') {
if ($input === null || $input == '') {
return $default;
}
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
// http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT
$encoding = mb_detect_encoding($input, array('Windows-1252', 'ISO-8859-1'), true);
if ($encoding == 'ISO-8859-1' || $encoding == 'Windows-1252') {
/*
* Because ISO-8859-1 and CP1252 are identical except for 0x80 through 0x9F
* and control characters, always convert from Windows-1252 to UTF-8.
*/
$input = iconv('Windows-1252', 'UTF-8//IGNORE', $input);
}
return $input;
}
iso-8859-1 doesn't contain the € sign so your string cannot be interpreted with iso-8859-1 if it contains it. Use iso-8859-15 instead.
Those 2 characters are illegal in iso-8859-1 (did you mean iso-8859-15?)
$ php -r 'echo iconv("utf-8","iso-8859-1//TRANSLIT","ter € and • the");'
ter EUR and o the