Cannot convert string in utf8

Question

I have this string: Deportivo La Coruña, if I return it I'll get: Deportivo la coruÃ±a, so I tried to handle the encoding in this way:

$homeName = "Deportivo La Coruña";
return mb_convert_encoding($homeName, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8'),

but same problem. I tried also utf8_encode but same result. How can I fix this issue without installing external libs?

All it takes, is one wrong charset setting in your application - *everything* needs to be the same charset! I have previously written [**an answer about UTF-8 encoding**](https://stackoverflow.com/a/31899827/4535200) that contains a little checklist, that will cover *most* of the charset issues in a PHP/MySQL application. There's also a more in-depth topic, [**UTF-8 All the Way Through**](https://stackoverflow.com/q/279170/4535200). Most likely, you'll find a solution in either one or both of these topics. — Qirel, May 20 '18 at 11:43
@RolandStarke `return` is used inside a function for return a value that could be an integer, a boolean, or as in this case a string. — utop, May 20 '18 at 12:56
@utop Sounds like you got a broken charset somewhere in your application. Go through the two posts I linked. :) — Qirel, May 20 '18 at 14:55

score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 31 '18 at 02:52

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I think the $homeName = "Deportivo La Coruña"; is in ISO-8859-1

return mb_convert_encoding($homeName,  'ISO-8859-1' ,'UTF-8');

Use this to achieve your result.

edited Aug 31 '18 at 02:52

Pang

answered May 20 '18 at 11:44

Boopathi D

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