On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:55:31 +0200, Nitsan Bin-Nun wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying for the last couple of hours to determine the
> encoding of a text file (.txt in windowz).
>
> I have this code:
>
> $contents = file_get_contents($config['
> txt_dir'] . $file);
> $encoding = mb_detect_encoding($contents,
> "UTF-8,ISO-8859-1,WINDOWS-1252"); //,Windows-1255
>
> echo "||encoding:".$encoding."||";
>
> if ($encoding == 'UTF-8')
> {
> $utfcontents = $contents;
> }
> else if ($encoding == 'ISO-8859-1')
> {
> $utfcontents = utf8_encode($contents);
> }
>
> var_dump($utfcontents);
>
> The $encoding is ISO-8859-1, the text file contains Hebrew characters, then
> I'm converting it to utf8.
>
> The above code is outputing gibbrish, it seems that it has converted it in
> some way but not in the
> proper way that it should have converted it.
If you know that the file contains Hebrew, maybe you should
try converting from ISO-8859-8?
/Nisse
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