php cli default encoding

[alin19]

hello.

I run a script that reads an email and sends forward some dates.

 

But there is a problem:

 

if i receive the sign:  £ with the encoding:  iso-8859-1

it doesn't handles alright the dates:

 

instead of "£" he sees : "=?"

 

how can i change the default encoding to a php script to utf-8?

 

i remember that there was a function that did this;

can you help me?

 

Thanks.