PHP french letters enconding - php

Question

Currently, I'm working with PHP, and i'm parsing a CSV and saving it to DB.
I don't have any problem with that, just I have some french characters, that it's not showing correctly.
I took a look in all previous questions and I tried all suggested solutions, but no one solved my problem ....
Also, with "utf8_encode", it becomes more unreadable.
Here you can find all the code of the function:
if(date('l') == 'Thursday' or date('d') == 1)
{
$row = 1;
if (($handle = fopen("C:/Users/ASUS/Downloads/Exemple_extraction.csv", "r")) !== FALSE)
{
$this->createTable();
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)
{
if($row == 1){ $row++; continue; }
$num = count($data);
for ($c = 0; $c < $num; $c++)
{
$dataa = (explode(';', $data[$c]));
$dest = str_replace(' ', '', $dataa['27']);
echo($dataa['27']);echo '<br>';
switch($dest)
{
case 'Investissement':
$destination = 'Investir';
break;
case 'Non défini':
$destination = '';
break;
case 'Résidence principale':
$destination = 'Habiter';
break;
case 'Résidence secondaire':
$destination = 'Habiter';
break;
default:
$destination = '';
}
$tLogt = str_replace(' ', '', $dataa['26']);
switch($tLogt)
{
case 'Studio':
$tLogt = 'studio';
break;
case '1/2 pièces':
$tLogt = '2P';
break;
case '2/3 pièces':
$tLogt = '3P';
break;
case '3/4 pièces':
$tLogt = '4P';
break;
default:
if($tLogt == '4/5 pièces' || $tLogt == '5/6 pièces' || $tLogt == '5P DUPLEX')
{
$tLogt = '5P+';
}
}
if(str_replace(' ', '', $dataa['9']) != '')
{
$cp = substr(str_replace(' ', '', $dataa['9']), 0, 2);
}
else
{
$cp = '';
}
DB::table(date('l') . '_' . date("d_m_Y"))
->insert(['flReservataire' => $dataa['0'],
'flClient' => $dataa['1'],
'idProspect' => $dataa['2'],
'civility' => $dataa['3'],
'firstname' => $dataa['4'],
'lastname' => $dataa['5'],
'address1' => $dataa['6'],
'address2' => $dataa['7'],
'address3' => $dataa['8'],
'zipcode' => $dataa['9'],
'city' => $dataa['10'],
'codeInsee' => $dataa['11'],
'country' => $dataa['12'],
'flNpai' => $dataa['13'],
'phone' => $dataa['14'],
'workphone' => $dataa['15'],
'cellphone' => $dataa['16'],
'email1' => $dataa['17'],
'email2' => $dataa['18'],
'flStopMarketing' => $dataa['19'],
'age' => $dataa['20'],
'program' => $dataa['21'],
'region' => $dataa['22'],
'department' => $dataa['23'],
'seller' => $dataa['24'],
'typeLogt' => $dataa['25'],
'tailleLogt' => $dataa['26'],
'destination' => $dataa['27'],
'apport' => $dataa['28'],
'budget' => $dataa['29'],
'timelimit' => $dataa['30'],
'idOrigine' => $dataa['31'],
'typeContact' => $dataa['32'],
'typeAction' => $dataa['33'],
'dateAction' => $dataa['34'],
'comment' => $dataa['35'],
'typeActionFuture' => $dataa['36'],
'dateActionFuture' => $dataa['37'],
'levier' => $dataa['38'],
'support' => $dataa['39'],
'enreg' => $dataa['40'],
'destination_good' => $destination,
'typologie_good' => $tLogt,
'cp_good' => $cp,]);
}
}
fclose($handle);
$this->sendMail('emailSuccess');
}
else
{
$this->sendMail('emailError');
}
}
In all the "echo", I got the problem..
Any other suggestion plz?
Thanks alot
Kind Regards

Answer 1

My assumption would be that the CSV file uses a local encoding. To load it into correct internal representation you have to use iconv() from the local encoding (probably some ISO-8859 or WIN-12xx) to UTF8.
Also, to find out the correct encoding, use some decent text editor that supports switching encodings. Then simply find an option that makes the source readable.