How to convert “é” to “é” in PHP? - php

Question

I'm trying to convert a string from this: “é” to this: “é”. It's a latin1 character but I can't do it right. So far I've tried two functions but none of them give me the right output.
$translation = 'Copà © rnico was Italian';
$translation = mb_convert_encoding($translation, 'utf-8', 'iso-8859-1'); //opt 1
$translation = iconv('utf-8', 'latin1', $translation); //opt 2
I'm getting this data from an Api so I don't know what's going on in the database.
This is the string in Spanish: Copérnico es italiano.
This is the data from the API: Copà © rnico is Italian
This is the result with $translation = bin2hex($translation);
436f70c38320c2a920726e69636f206973204974616c69616e
What's the right way to go? Greetings.

Answer 1

I had the same problem before and this option
$translation = iconv('utf-8', 'latin1', $translation); //opt 2
work verry well.
Your problem is `Copà © rnico was Italian` is not the same than `Copérnico was Italian`.
So when you try to convert the function iconv see 2 wrong UTF-8 symbols because de spaces, is not the same "à © "(2 invalid UTF-8 symbols and 2 spaces) than "é"(1 Valid UTF-8 symbol)