PHP ANSI to UTF-8

gistfile1.php

public static function ansiEncode($array = array(), $fields = array()) {

        if(!empty($array)) {

            for($i = 0; $i < count($array); $i++) {

                foreach($fields as $key => $value) {

                    try {

                        json_encode($array[$i][$value]);

                    } catch (Exception $e) {

                        $array[$i][$value] = iconv('Windows-1253','UTF-8', $array[$i][$value]);

                    }

                }

            }

            return $array;

        } else {
            return null;
        }

    }