PHP: Convert any string to UTF-8 without knowing the original character set, or at least try

phputf-8character-encoding


PHP Snippet 1:

iconv(mb_detect_encoding($text, mb_detect_order(), true), "UTF-8", $text);

PHP Snippet 2:

    encoding_1:
    190 => 0.095249209893009,
    222 => 0.095249209893009,
    ...
    encoding_2:
    239 => 0.095249209893009,
    207 => 0.095249209893009,
    ...
    encoding_N:
    charcode => probabilty

PHP Snippet 3:

$text = "fiancée";
echo mb_convert_encoding($text, "UTF-8");
echo "<br/><br/>";
echo iconv(mb_detect_encoding($text), "UTF-8", $text);

PHP Snippet 4:

    private function isUTF8($encoding, $value)
    {
        return (($encoding === 'UTF-8') && (utf8_encode(utf8_decode($value)) === $value));
    }

    private function utf8tify(&$value)
    {
        $encodings = ['UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1', 'ASCII'];

        mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
        mb_substitute_character(0xfffd); //REPLACEMENT CHARACTER
        mb_detect_order($encodings);

        $stringEncoding = mb_detect_encoding($value, $encodings, true);

        if (!$stringEncoding) {
            $value = null;
            throw new \RuntimeException("Unable to identify character encoding in sanitizer.");
        }

        if ($this->isUTF8($stringEncoding, $value)) {
            return;
        } else {
            $value = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'UTF-8', $stringEncoding);
            $stringEncoding = mb_detect_encoding($value, $encodings, true);

            if ($this->isUTF8($stringEncoding, $value)) {
                return;
            } else {
                $value = null;
                throw new \RuntimeException("Unable to convert character encoding from ISO-8859-1, or ASCII, to UTF-8 in Sanitizer.");
            }
        }

        return;
    }

PHP Snippet 5:

$connection = new mysqli($server, $user, $pass, $db);
$connection->set_charset("utf8");

PHP Snippet 6:

mysqli_set_charset($con, "utf8");

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