utf_encode problem

[Alex Prokop]

I'm having a problem with UTF-8 encoding on a site. I'm getting text from two different sources that I don't have access to. One is a database using latin1 charset the other an XML feed in UTF-8.

 

The script I'm running uses mb_detect_encoding to check the encoding of the source (latin1) then echos out text from the database using utf_encode. I'm getting the following result with odd characters:

 

http://www.1to58.co.uk/test.php

 

Any ideas?

 

I have since solved this by using an opposite approach and setting the doctype to latin1 and utf-decode on the XML feed, but I'd still really like to know what's going on...

 

Cheers,

Alex

[MadTechie]

Have you tried using iconv

 

if the encoding is this may fix it

$string = iconv("UTF-8","UTF-8//IGNORE",$string);