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utf8_encode — Converts a string from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
This function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 8.2.0. Relying on this function is highly discouraged.
This function converts the string string from the
ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8.
Nota:
This function does not attempt to guess the current encoding of the provided string, it assumes it is encoded as ISO-8859-1 (also known as "Latin 1") and converts to UTF-8. Since every sequence of bytes is a valid ISO-8859-1 string, this never results in an error, but will not result in a useful string if a different encoding was intended.
Many web pages marked as using the
ISO-8859-1character encoding actually use the similarWindows-1252encoding, and web browsers will interpretISO-8859-1web pages asWindows-1252.Windows-1252features additional printable characters, such as the Euro sign (€) and curly quotes (“”), instead of certainISO-8859-1control characters. This function will not convert suchWindows-1252characters correctly. Use a different function ifWindows-1252conversion is required.
stringAn ISO-8859-1 string.
Returns the UTF-8 translation of string.
| Versione | Descrizione |
|---|---|
| 8.2.0 | This function has been deprecated. |
| 7.2.0 | This function has been moved from the XML extension to the core of PHP. In previous versions, it was only available if the XML extension was installed. |
Example #1 Basic example
<?php
// Convert the string 'Zoë' from ISO 8859-1 to UTF-8
$iso8859_1_string = "\x5A\x6F\xEB";
$utf8_string = utf8_encode($iso8859_1_string);
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
?>Il precedente esempio visualizzerà:
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Nota: Deprecation and alternatives
This function is deprecated as of PHP 8.2.0, and will be removed in a future version. Existing uses should be checked and replaced with appropriate alternatives.
Similar functionality can be achieved with mb_convert_encoding(), which supports ISO-8859-1 and many other character encodings.
<?php
$iso8859_1_string = "\xEB"; // 'ë' (e with diaeresis) in ISO-8859-1
$utf8_string = mb_convert_encoding($iso8859_1_string, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1');
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
$iso8859_7_string = "\xEB"; // the same string in ISO-8859-7 represents 'λ' (Greek lower-case lambda)
$utf8_string = mb_convert_encoding($iso8859_7_string, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-7');
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
$windows_1252_string = "\x80"; // '€' (Euro sign) in Windows-1252, but not in ISO-8859-1
$utf8_string = mb_convert_encoding($windows_1252_string, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252');
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
?>Il precedente esempio visualizzerà:
c3ab cebb e282acOther options which may be available depending on the extensions installed are UConverter::transcode() and iconv().
The following all give the same result:
<?php
$iso8859_1_string = "\x5A\x6F\xEB"; // 'Zoë' in ISO-8859-1
$utf8_string = utf8_encode($iso8859_1_string);
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
$utf8_string = mb_convert_encoding($iso8859_1_string, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1');
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
$utf8_string = UConverter::transcode($iso8859_1_string, 'UTF8', 'ISO-8859-1');
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
$utf8_string = iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $iso8859_1_string);
echo bin2hex($utf8_string), "\n";
?>Il precedente esempio visualizzerà:
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Please note that utf8_encode only converts a string encoded in ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. A more appropriate name for it would be "iso88591_to_utf8". If your text is not encoded in ISO-8859-1, you do not need this function. If your text is already in UTF-8, you do not need this function. In fact, applying this function to text that is not encoded in ISO-8859-1 will most likely simply garble that text.
If you need to convert text from any encoding to any other encoding, look at iconv() instead.Here's some code that addresses the issue that Steven describes in the previous comment;
<?php
/* This structure encodes the difference between ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252,
as a map from the UTF-8 encoding of some ISO-8859-1 control characters to
the UTF-8 encoding of the non-control characters that Windows-1252 places
at the equivalent code points. */
$cp1252_map = array(
"\xc2\x80" => "\xe2\x82\xac", /* EURO SIGN */
"\xc2\x82" => "\xe2\x80\x9a", /* SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK */
"\xc2\x83" => "\xc6\x92", /* LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK */
"\xc2\x84" => "\xe2\x80\x9e", /* DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK */
"\xc2\x85" => "\xe2\x80\xa6", /* HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS */
"\xc2\x86" => "\xe2\x80\xa0", /* DAGGER */
"\xc2\x87" => "\xe2\x80\xa1", /* DOUBLE DAGGER */
"\xc2\x88" => "\xcb\x86", /* MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT */
"\xc2\x89" => "\xe2\x80\xb0", /* PER MILLE SIGN */
"\xc2\x8a" => "\xc5\xa0", /* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON */
"\xc2\x8b" => "\xe2\x80\xb9", /* SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION */
"\xc2\x8c" => "\xc5\x92", /* LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE */
"\xc2\x8e" => "\xc5\xbd", /* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON */
"\xc2\x91" => "\xe2\x80\x98", /* LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK */
"\xc2\x92" => "\xe2\x80\x99", /* RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK */
"\xc2\x93" => "\xe2\x80\x9c", /* LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK */
"\xc2\x94" => "\xe2\x80\x9d", /* RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK */
"\xc2\x95" => "\xe2\x80\xa2", /* BULLET */
"\xc2\x96" => "\xe2\x80\x93", /* EN DASH */
"\xc2\x97" => "\xe2\x80\x94", /* EM DASH */
"\xc2\x98" => "\xcb\x9c", /* SMALL TILDE */
"\xc2\x99" => "\xe2\x84\xa2", /* TRADE MARK SIGN */
"\xc2\x9a" => "\xc5\xa1", /* LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON */
"\xc2\x9b" => "\xe2\x80\xba", /* SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION*/
"\xc2\x9c" => "\xc5\x93", /* LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE */
"\xc2\x9e" => "\xc5\xbe", /* LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON */
"\xc2\x9f" => "\xc5\xb8" /* LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS*/
);
function cp1252_to_utf8($str) {
global $cp1252_map;
return strtr(utf8_encode($str), $cp1252_map);
}
?>If you haven't guessed already: If the UTF-8 character has no representation in the ISO-8859-1 codepage, a ? will be returned. You might want to wrap a function around this to make sure you aren't saving a bunch of ???? into your database.