Im using linux centos. I have access to terminal. I did what you asked converting the test.txt to CP1256 And to verify that I did, file -bi test.txt text/plain; charset=us-ascii not showing cp1256 encoding. But when I do, iconv -l | grep CP1256 CP1256// I get CP1256 encoding. > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter West [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:11 PM > To: hadi; PHP General > Subject: Re: strange character > > > On 25 Feb 2015, at 9:06 pm, hadi <almarzuki2011@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > I want to convert from utf-8 to CP1256 so the strange character can be > fixed. > > I think it's either a) already in CP1256, or it's in some other character set > altogether. The error message is telling you that it's not recognised as UTF-8. > > Do you have access to the iconv program in a terminal? If you are on a linux > or OS X system, just open a terminal and type > > iconv --help > > If you have iconv installed you will get a help message. > > Get the text you are trying to convert into a text file, and just try various > conversions using iconv, until it looks right. Let's say your text is in the file > unknown.txt. > > iconv -l > > will list all of the character sets that iconv knows about. Find the likely > candidates and just try > > iconv -t UTF8 -f CP1252 unknown.txt > iconv -t UTF8 -f CP1256 unknown.txt > iconv -t UTF8 -f CP1254 unknown.txt > > etc, until it looks right. > > Peter West > "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here." > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Peter West [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxx] > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 1:46 PM > >> To: hadi > >> Subject: Re: strange character > >> > >> Aren't you going the wrong way? It looks as though the text you are > >> trying to convert is one of the 8-bit character sets. From these > >> sets you get bad characters because a character with the MSBit set > >> will be interpreted by a > >> UTF-8 system as a multi-byte character. > >> > >> Which way do you want to go: from CP1256 to UTF-8 or vice versa? > >> > >> Peter West > >> "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here." > >> > >>> On 25 Feb 2015, at 7:15 pm, hadi <almarzuki2011@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> > >>> Im trying to use (iconv("UTF-8", 'CP1256//TRANSLIT', $rss);) to > >>> convert strange character like (–) to proper character, but im > >>> getting error > >>> > >>> I googled about it but never found anything about it. > >>> > >>> Here is the error > >>> > >>> Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in > >>> /var/www/html/rssfeed/sahafah.php on line 35 > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: > >>> http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >>> > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
