Re: Decoding from unknown charsets (inc. ks_c_5601-1987)

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Short term, you could simply base64 encode them so that at least they
go in as something you can do something with later...

On Tue, April 10, 2007 8:27 am, Edward Kay wrote:
> I have an app that stores email messages in a database. The app and DB
> are
> UTF-8 but obviously the emails can be in a variety of character sets.
> Most
> can be converted easily using mb_convert_encoding or iconv but I have
> some
> emails encoded as ks_c_5601-1987, which neither of these two functions
> handle.
>
> Googling for ks_c_5601-1987 doesn't help. Most people just say it is
> an
> invalid charset and can be ignored as spam, but we have genuine emails
> that
> need to be stored in the DB.
>
> If I don't convert the messages, they get truncated when inserted into
> the
> database.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Edward
>
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