Convert a Windows CP1252 string to Latin1. Converts the typical Windows (Word) crappy display characters like curly quotation marks, triple dots, etc. Windows-1252 or CP-1252 is a character encoding of the Latin alphabet, used by default in the legacy components of Microsoft Windows in English and some other Western languages. It is one version …

convert_windows_cp1252_to_latin1.php

<?php
function transcribe_cp1252_to_latin1($cp1252) {
  return strtr(
	    $cp1252,
	    array(
	      "\x80" => "e",  "\x81" => " ",    "\x82" => "'", "\x83" => 'f',
	      "\x84" => '"',  "\x85" => "…",  "\x86" => "+", "\x87" => "#",
	      "\x88" => "^",  "\x89" => "0/00", "\x8A" => "S", "\x8B" => "<",
	      "\x8C" => "OE", "\x8D" => " ",    "\x8E" => "Z", "\x8F" => " ",
	      "\x90" => " ",  "\x91" => "`",    "\x92" => "'", "\x93" => '"',
	      "\x94" => '"',  "\x95" => "*",    "\x96" => "-", "\x97" => "--",
	      "\x98" => "~",  "\x99" => "(™)", "\x9A" => "s", "\x9B" => ">",
	      "\x9C" => "oe", "\x9D" => " ",    "\x9E" => "z", "\x9F" => "Y",
	      "…" => "..."
	    )
	);
}