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Hi I have seen this question asked around the traps, but so far none of the examples I have seen have helped me, when I tried them. I am getting the error "iconv(): Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string ", on certain input. When using the following functions together. Do you have any ideas as to how to get this error message to go away. I am attempting to convert an input string with mixed encoding to UTF8.

    function ConvertToUTF8($text){
         return iconv(mb_detect_encoding($text, mb_detect_order(), false), "UTF-8//IGNORE", $text);
    }

EDIT: Hi all after some looking around the following worked for us:

 function ConvertToUTF8($text){

    $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($text, mb_detect_order(), false);

    if($encoding == "UTF-8")
    {
        $text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');    
    }


    $out = iconv(mb_detect_encoding($text, mb_detect_order(), false), "UTF-8//IGNORE", $text);


    return $out;
}

You might be able to improve it, but it fixed our error.

GodLovesYou
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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4794647/php-dealing-special-characters-with-iconv http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9631299/removing-invalid-incomplete-multibyte-characters – Cheery Sep 29 '14 at 04:07
  • where is the sample string? – Kevin Sep 29 '14 at 04:59

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Ok so here is what worked for us.

function ConvertToUTF8($text){

    $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($text, mb_detect_order(), false);

    if($encoding == "UTF-8")
    {
        $text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');    
    }


    $out = iconv(mb_detect_encoding($text, mb_detect_order(), false), "UTF-8//IGNORE", $text);


    return $out;
}
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problem in your mb_detect_encoding function value return by this function is array. use it separately.

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  • Hi according to the PHP manual it should return a string, which part returns an array? string mb_detect_encoding ( string $str [, mixed $encoding_list = mb_detect_order() [, bool $strict = false ]] ) – GodLovesYou Oct 13 '14 at 03:13
  • it return FALSE if the encoding cannot be detected from the given string.please check it what it return. – dev verma Oct 13 '14 at 04:36