Converting iso stream to unicode

famebluerain

hello
i have a working code :
if ($fp = @fopen($url, "r")) {
while (!feof($fp)) {
$data .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}

but i want to convert $data to unicode, i try this code but seems not working . what is the problem?

if ($fp = @fopen($url, "r")) {
while (!feof($fp)) {
$data .= fgets($fp, 128);
}
fclose($fp);
}
$data = utf8_encode($data) //tried .= also

thanks in advance

Natty_Dreadlock

do u get any error or just an untouched string $data??

famebluerain

Originally posted by Natty_Dreadlock
do u get any error or just an untouched string $data??

it seems to be an emty string. befor adding this converter function it was returning somthing in an xml file (ofcours garbage data), but when i added this part it didn't work at all.

you can see the full code here :
http://www.voidstar.com/downloads/rssify.php.txt

thank you very much

Natty_Dreadlock

which system r u running and r u sure it's an iso stream? Here a user comment from http://de2.php.net/utf8_encode :

you can lost a lot of hours if your charset is not iso-88951 and you cant' see your characters [...]

you must use iconv instead with your codepage
(for example windows-1251 for ukrainian, russian)

$fw = fopen("flash_input.txt", "w");
if( $fw )
{
$utf = iconv("windows-1251","UTF-8",$variable_value);
$out = 'variable_name='.$utf;
fputs($fw, $out);
fclose($fw);
}

So u gotta know your system's codepage and use iconv if u r not usin the iso codepage...
just an idea, maybe that can help u