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The toUTF8 function is currently unusable for me because of  not supported before group B. The non-breaking space character is alas, widely used in various sites. Would it be possible to add a specific fix for this character when followed by group B characters?

Hi i try to fix a garbled UTF8 string but i don't know why it doesn't work :

require_once("./Encoding.php");

echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football\n");

echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football\n");

echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football\n");

echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football\n");

$data = "Année 80 International 587 tubes année par année";

$new = \ForceUTF8\Encoding::UTF8FixWin1252Chars($data);
echo "Test 1 
";
echo $new;

$new = \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8($data);
echo "Test 2 
";
echo $new;

Return me this :

Fédération Camerounaise de Football 

Fédération Camerounaise de Football 

Fédération Camerounaise de Football 

Fédération Camerounaise de Football 

Test 1 
Année 80 International 587 tubes année par année

Test 2 
Année 80 International 587 tubes année par année

Thanks for the help

I'm putting the text as quoted-printable

Testing emojis =F0=9F=98=84

That char (F09F9884) doesn't get correctly detected

Hello neitanod, great lib!
However, some characters are converted into question marks with fixUTF8 method.
For example, the whole Russian alphabet and letters š and ž.

echo ForceUTF8::fixUTF8('hello žš'); //outputs hello ??
echo ForceUTF8::fixUTF8('привет'); //outputs ?????? 

The script garbles some characters.
For instance if applied directly to a garbled source that contains "'â€�'", this script will convert it into "â??"
When using str_replace first, to turn "'â€�'" into the correct "”", then fixUTF8 will convert the "”" into a simple "?"

The problem is that forceUTF8 will turn almost all of these characters into the same representation, thus making it impossible to apply both str_replace and forceUTF8 on the same string.

Here's the chars that it doesn't correctly convert:

'“'
'�'
'’'
'‘'
'—'
'–'
'•'
'…'

It would be really good if you could create a release for this so we can target a specific release of this. I feel uncomfortable targeting 'master'.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, I have found that the fixUTF8 has issues when the input string has ligature characters such as Œ, this is converted to a ? sign, even tough the input string does not need any fixing.

Input: Café Nöel Œuf Aoüt
Output: Café Nöel ?uf Août

Hi,

I'm using your library and it works but I only have one problem when I enter chinese or japanese characters it converted to "?". Any solution for this?

Thanks

Hello,

I have this string:

...in „Test string�

This string is stored in a database field which previously had the collation latin1_sweedish_ci. I have converted this to utf8_general_ci.

The value should be

...in „Test string”

I have tried so many solutions including yours, but it seems none of them are working. If you have a quick solution to this, would be very nice.

Cheers !

I love your script and think that toUTF8 is a great function. Just missing one that converts entire arrays though.
Cheers,
Joan

Hi, is it possible that the characters
“ ”
are not correctly decoded ?

I am unable to convert the string, no mater what function i try to use.

<?php

require_once 'vendor/forceutf8/src/ForceUTF8/Encoding.php';

$string = "“Grinvich�";

echo "string to convert: {$string}<br>";

$string1 = \ForceUTF8\Encoding::toUTF8($string);

echo "<hr>toUTF8: {$string1}";

$string2 = \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8($string);

echo "<hr>fixUTF8: {$string2}";

$string3 = \ForceUTF8\Encoding::UTF8FixWin1252Chars($string);

echo "<hr>UTF8FixWin1252Chars: {$string3}";

$string4 = \ForceUTF8\Encoding::toWin1252($string);

echo "<hr>toWin1252: {$string4}";

Text is truncated when calling Encoding::fixUTF8 if mb_strlen is overloading strlen. This is because mb_strlen returns the char length instead of the byte length of the string.

This fixes the issue:

/** Encoding::toUTF8 @line 184 */
if ( function_exists('mb_strlen') && ((int) ini_get('mbstring.func_overload')) & 2) {
  $max = mb_strlen($text,'8bit');
} else {
  $max = strlen($text);
}

Hello, i have an XML with mixed character encoding. I used this object to convert it to UTF-8, but after i have some faulty character.

Here is my XML:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwc9cF3Q50LTUmMwUTVyT1pVY28/view?usp=sharing

Why does your toWin1252, toISO8859 and toLatin1 do all the same thing?

Not sure if this even actually matters, but "Encoding.php" is missing the closing ?>

Hi

According to PHP manual, iconv with //TRANSLIT flag should convert symbols (eg: € to EUR)

BUT it doesn't work with your version (still € after finction call)

It is because you are using "windows-1252" instead of "iso-8859-1" used as an example of the PHP manual ?

I am using it with Encoding::fixUTF8($a, Encoding::ICONV_TRANSLIT)
with $a = array('symbol' => '€')

Any help on this matter would be appreciated.

Also, isn't it odd not to allow flags for "toUTF8" and "toLatin1" functions

There's a lot of fantastic work happening and I love seeing so much activity. But having a newer tag release would help me feel more comfortable with my build stability.

i've tried with pure utf8 string:
$s = 'Những Ca Khúc Nhạc Vàng';

and utf8 mixed:
$s = 'Những Ca Khúc Nhạc Vàng';

to latin1 but didn't worked.

kindly:
how I can call the class ?
this make me error:
use \ForceUTF8\Encoding;
suggestions ?
thx

Hi.
I'm working with this library in an existing project.
We are having an issue with numbers. They return inside quotes. And we'd like to leave them alone.

Something like this would be nice:

if(is_numeric($text)){
   return $textM
}

So, I'm wondering if this chunk intended to do that):

if(!is_string($text)) {
      return $text;
}

Because I don't wanna touch something that make break something else in the existing code.

Do you remember?

Thanks in advance.

<?php
require_once("ForceUTF8/Encoding.php");

echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
echo "<br>";
echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃédÃération Camerounaise de Football");
echo "<br>";
echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃÃédÃÃération Camerounaise de Football");
echo "<br>";
echo \ForceUTF8\Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃÃÃédÃÃÃération Camerounaise de Football");

output:

Fédération Camerounaise de Football
FÃédÃération Camerounaise de Football
FÃÃédÃÃération Camerounaise de Football
FÃÃÃédÃÃÃération Camerounaise de Football

Hello

I've a problem when tried to convert string with char "à" : is not convert, so print Ã.
it's normal ?

I use fixUTF8() for this string : "La vidéo-surveillance se développe à Chambéry
Thanks

Everyone seems to have this working, but I get the same output before and after:

Before:
96 kr/mån

After:
96 kr/mån

If I run: utf_decode on the string I get:
96 kr/mån

I tried to find the issue my self, but with no result..

Examples:

echo Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃédÃération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃÃédÃÃération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃÃÃédÃÃÃération Camerounaise de Football");

will output:

Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football
Fédération Camerounaise de Football

The 1st works but the 3 after it only remove one of the à instead of all of them.

Hello, i use forceutf8 to encode some of email bosy in php imap.
I find an issue to encode simple quote.
It appears like '?'
Any method to fix this?

Hi, this project is very useful for the community and there are a lot of suggestions and requests but there is no answers from the maintainers. Is this project still alive?

First of all thank you for create the tags.

Now, packagist did not updated with these tags. I realize that the package neitanod/forceutf8 does not belongs to you neither to a any forceutf8 developer. I already contact the owner of packagist (https://github.com/nidelson) but there is no answer.

I suggest you to claim the ownership of this package to avoid this happens again. The packagist email is [email protected].

Sorry If I am boring you but I prefer the project to be maintained by the creator instead to create a fork and separate the codes.

Hi there
great lib. Works nearly perfectly on my project.
However, it seems that sometimes toUTF8() returns an invalid utf8-encoded string.

See this example:

$utf8_string = \ForceUTF8\Encoding::toUTF8(base64_decode('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'));

var_export(mb_check_encoding($utf8_string, 'UTF-8'));

Should print "true" but got "false".

Any Ideas?

Thank you

Hello neianod! I wouldr apreciate your work! Bu now I'm experimenting an issue and is that i can't visualize japanesse characters.. Can you tell how can I visualize it?

EDIT: Here is the code and comparation:
fixUTF8() Example 5 not working. -> FAILED 17 tests passed. 1 tests failed.
Test::identical("fixUTF8() Example 5 not working.",
Encoding::fixUTF8("Á0ë0¿0ê0¹0a\n"),
"チルタリス\n");

Thanks in advance!

Hey there, great class! But i have problems with an gb2312 encoded document.
Is it right that this isn't supported?
If yes, is it possible that you implement this?

Thanks
Julian

Am i just doing something wrong? giving it a japanese string is returning this: ?±?ê??e?X?g??·

Hello, i'm using this class and o notice that when I try to convert UTF-8 with special chars I got an problem.
The words are converted correctly but the special chars like • not

Hello,
I received error:
XML Parsing Error at line 1:
PCDATA invalid Char value 4.

Im using notepad++ for xml files.

How to find that error.. xml file big as universe... :( it should be some char written in bad encoding I guess, but how to find it in all file.. :/

Thank You for your help

hello,
Can you help me with this error?

require_once('config/encoding.php');

function convertUtf8($str)
{
return Encoding::toUTF8($str);
}
echo convertUtf8($field);

Hi,

It seems to works just fine but what is the license used by your library ?

I have some strings with broken encoding:

$testStr1 = <<<TEXT
China. In 1953, Max̥s parents decided
by ÌÕnew-ageÌÒ meditative
Peter Max (American, b.1937) ÌÕFour KennedysÌÒ, screenprint in colors, 1989, signed in white pencil
TEXT;

echo Encoding::UTF8FixWin1252Chars($testStr1), "\n\n", Encoding::fixUTF8($testStr1), "\n\n";

None of them were fixed:

China. In 1953, Max̥s parents decided
by ÌÕnew-ageÌÒ meditative
Peter Max (American, b.1937) ÌÕFour KennedysÌÒ, screenprint in colors, 1989, signed in white pencil

China. In 1953, Max?s parents decided
by ÌÕnew-ageÌÒ meditative
Peter Max (American, b.1937) ÌÕFour KennedysÌÒ, screenprint in colors, 1989, signed in white pencil

Any idea?

I was looking at the composer.json and noticed it lists "php": ">=5.2.0". Shouldn't that be "php": ">=5.3.0" since the code is namespaced?

This package was very helpful for me, but still, there're some rare case that it fail to convert to proper utf8. I just want to post it here, in case the author or anyone , someday might have interest in further perfect this package.
Here're some string sample i have, while trying to read RSS from some Thailand sources, and input into MySQL database.

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The example from the readme

echo Encoding::fixUTF8("Fédération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃédÃération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃÃédÃÃération Camerounaise de Football");
echo Encoding::fixUTF8("FÃÃÃédÃÃÃération Camerounaise de Football");

outputs the following for me:

Fédération Camerounaise de Football
FÃédÃération Camerounaise de Football
FÃÃédÃÃération Camerounaise de Football
FÃÃÃédÃÃÃération Camerounaise de Football

Basically it only seems to run one pass over the string, the first string looks ok though.
Am I doing something wrong? Perhaps there should be a tiny test suite?

I'm on debian 7, and this is the relevant PHP data:

PHP 5.4.4-14+deb7u8 (cli) (built: Feb 17 2014 09:18:47)
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

First of all, thanks !!
Your tools helps me a lot for UTF8 string conversion

I would save a string in XML and I would like to format it in UTF8,
But I have this error when I try to load XML after save.

DOMDocument::load(): PCDATA invalid Char value 31

I look for an answer in Google and I found that.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14463573/php-simplexml-load-file-invalid-character-error

function utf8_for_xml($string)
{
    return preg_replace ('/[^\x{0009}\x{000a}\x{000d}\x{0020}-\x{D7FF}\x{E000}-\x{FFFD}]+/u', ' ', $string);
}

Can you tell me if there is an other way to solve it?

Mathieu

The Wikipedia article on UTF-8 (as well as other documents around the web) mention a handful of situations where a structurally-valid UTF-8 character should actually be rejected or modified. One example of this is overlong characters.
Your script doesn't do anything about such cases.

I tried some of the strings from http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-test/UTF-8-demo.html and they failed to convert.

Specifically

Mathematics and Sciences:

  ∮ E⋅da = Q,  n → ∞, ∑ f(i) = ∏ g(i), ∀x∈ℝ: ⌈x⌉ = −⌊−x⌋, α ∧ ¬β = ¬(¬α ∨ β),

  ℕ ⊆ ℕ₀ ⊂ ℤ ⊂ ℚ ⊂ ℝ ⊂ ℂ, ⊥ < a ≠ b ≡ c ≤ d ≪ ⊤ ⇒ (A ⇔ B),

Trying on this word but not working at all. Also tried the example but not working.

Medveđa

In Encoding.php on line 297 my debugger says "Unused local variable $enc"

$enc = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/', '', $encoding);

Should this be changed to:

$encoding = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/', '', $encoding);

?

As said, toUTF8 method does not convert properly latin special characters from ISO-8859-2 encoding.