I did what you asked and here is the result.
Frist cmp, cmp test.txt test.utf8 give nothing output.
Second cmp, cmp test.txt test.1256 getting this result cmp: EOF on test.txt.
But im not understanding how this related to my php error what im getting.
And thanks peter for standing with me in my issue.
What im trying to achieve here to remove the strange character by translating utf-8 to CP1256, but unfortunately getting error from php (Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in )
I did test on the strange character and its working prefect, but when it's come to downloading rss feed, it give error.
<?php
$str = '(–)';
echo iconv("UTF-8", 'CP1256//TRANSLIT', $str);
?>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter West [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 3:49 PM
> To: hadi
> Cc: PHP General
> Subject: Re: strange character
>
> If the file is really us-ascii, then there are no characters in that file with the
> 8th bit set, and you can do this:
>
> iconv -f ASCII -t UTF8 test.txt >test.utf8 iconv -f ASCII -t CP1256 test.txt
> >test.1256 cmp test.txt test.utf8
> (should be no messages about differences.) cmp test.txt test.1256
> (should be no messages about differences.)
>
> If that all works, then the test text you have is not the same as the text you
> have the problem with. If you have any problems with this sequence, tell us
> what they are.
>
> Peter West
> "...and behold, something greater than Jonah is here."
>
> > On 25 Feb 2015, at 10:35 pm, hadi <almarzuki2011@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> >>>
> >>
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