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dd($result);

Result:

...
+description: "عند...ترنت."    
+keywords: b"°ó¨Ü¨ü¨ê...Ü°®"
...

+keywords has the letter 'b' in front of the string, description does not have that... What does the 'b' mean? And if it is possible, how can I convert the string?

Btw, this is the result if I var_dump the keywords: string(116) "���,����,�,��,����������,����������,��,��������,�������,������:"

I think it has to do something with charset, i'm using UTF-8.

Dirk Jan
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If you read: https://symfony.com/doc/current/components/var_dumper.html (which is what Laravel is using) you can see:

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So the answer is the string is not valid in UTF-8 (I am guessing b stands for binary).

Maybe check if you can detect the encoding if it's something else.

apokryfos
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