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Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string [message #180485 is a reply to message #180484]

Thu, 21 February 2013 19:13

Giacomo M
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Il 21/02/2013 20:08, Tim Streater ha scritto:
> In article <kg5plp$jk2$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org>,
> Giacomo M <kylnas(at)tiscali(dot)it> wrote:
>
>> Il 21/02/2013 16:58, The Natural Philosopher ha scritto:
>>> "Please note that utf8_decode simply converts a string encoded in UTF-8
>>> to ISO-8859-1. A more appropriate name for it would be
>> utf8_to_iso88591.
>>> If your text is already encoded in ISO-8859-1, you do not need this
>>> function. If you don't want to use ISO-8859-1, you do not need this
>>> function.
>>>
>>> Note that UTF-8 can represent many more characters than ISO-8859-1.
>>> Trying to convert a UTF-8 string that contains characters that can't be
>>> represented in ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-1 will garble your text and/or
>>> cause characters to go missing. Trying to convert text that is not
>>> encoded in UTF-8 using this function will most likely garble the text."
>>
>> Not my case. I first encode an ISO string in UTF, after i decode the
>> same string. Why I get differet strings?
>
> Your title doesn't say that. It says you decode first, then encode.

Is it not the same?

I have an ISO-8859-1 xml file that I have to load with simplexml, so I
first decode it. After that, I want to encode to return to ISO-8859-1.
But I get different string.

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		utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Giacomo M on Thu, 21 February 2013 13:44
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 21 February 2013 15:18
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 21 February 2013 15:58
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Giacomo M on Thu, 21 February 2013 18:39
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Tim Streater on Thu, 21 February 2013 19:08
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Giacomo M on Thu, 21 February 2013 19:13
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Tim Streater on Thu, 21 February 2013 22:29

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