and why not : $out = iconv('windows-1250','UTF-8', $in); ??? Alain On 8/12/07, brian <phplist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Alain Roger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I import a csv file (which includes characters from "windows-1250" > charset) > > to postgreSQL database which is in UTF-8. > > How can i convert windows-1250 to utf-8 charset ? > > > > Try the iconv functions: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php > > $out = iconv('ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8', $in); > > This page may be of use, as well: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1250 > > "Windows-1250 is *similar* to ISO-8859-2 ..." > > brian > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Alain ------------------------------------ Windows XP SP2 PostgreSQL 8.2.3 Apache 2.2.4 PHP 5.2.3