If windows notepad can detect encoding there must be a way to do it
yourself.
Maybe try to get the file's headers, I think it should also contain the
encoding of the file...
2009/11/26 Nitsan Bin-Nun <nitsanbn@xxxxxxxxx>
> Someone have already suggested it but I haven't tried it yet.
>
> The thing is that right now it contains Hebrew, but tommorrow this file
> will
> be in German or any other accented language.
> I'm trying to create a function which would detect the encoding and convert
> it into UTF8.
>
> (I don't have much experience in encoding.. :( )
>
> 2009/11/26 Nisse Engström <news.NOSPAM.0ixbtqKe@xxxxxxxx>
>
> > 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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