Convert Windows-1256 to UTF-8

Question

I get the contents of a web page by curl, with charset set to Windows-1256.

Now I want to insert this data into a MySQL database, with charset utf8_general_ci.

Is there any way to do this?

You might want to look in here first: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8592898/php-convert-windows-1256-encoded-text-to-utf-8 — Sudhir Bastakoti, May 21 '12 at 11:28

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '12 at 11:26

You need iconv():

$utf8 = iconv('windows-1256', 'utf-8', $win1256);

If you want a 100% safe, works everywhere way to do this, the simplest thing to do would be to make a lookup table a use str_replace().

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