encoding.php

encoding.php

<?php

function detect_encoding($string)
{
    //http://w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html
    if (preg_match('%^(?: [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] | \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] | [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} | \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] | \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} | [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} | \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} )*$%xs', $string))
        return 'UTF-8';

    //If you need to distinguish between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 encoding, list UTF-8 first in your encoding_list.
    //if you list ISO-8859-1 first, mb_detect_encoding() will always return ISO-8859-1.
    return mb_detect_encoding($string, array('UTF-8', 'ASCII', 'ISO-8859-1', 'JIS', 'EUC-JP', 'SJIS'));
}

function convert_encoding($string, $to_encoding, $from_encoding = '')
{
    if ($from_encoding == '')
        $from_encoding = detect_encoding($string);

    if ($from_encoding == $to_encoding)
        return $string;

    return mb_convert_encoding($string, $to_encoding, $from_encoding);
}

$newString = convert_encoding($oldString, 'UTF-8');