Special character issues reading csv. ASCII with UTF-8 fgetcsv not working.

special_characters_csv

$csvheader = NULL;
$data = array();
if (($handle = fopen($argv[1], "r")) !== FALSE) {

while (($row = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== FALSE) {

    if (!$csvHeader) {

        //format csv header row into array of strings
        $row = str_replace('"', '', $row);
        $row = str_replace("\r\n", '', $row);

        $num = strlen($row) - strlen(str_replace(",", "", $row));

        $csvHeader = array();
        $csvHeader = explode( ",", $row , ($num+1) );

    } else {

         //line that fixed my issue
         $row = utf8_encode($row);

         $Data = str_getcsv($row, "\n"); 
         foreach($Data as &$row){
             $row = str_getcsv($row, ",");
             $data[] = array_combine($csvHeader, $row);
         } 
    }
}
fclose($handle);
}