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Reputation: 1

How to read an UCS-2 text-file as an UTF-8 string, in PHP?

I have an UCS-2 text files. Now, I want to read this text file as an UTF-8 string. I have used this code for doing it.

my_code.php:

<?php

error_reporting(0);        
header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

echo '<form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post"><p><input type="file" name="my_file" />&nbsp;<input type="submit" value="+" /><hr />';

$my_str = file_get_contents(($_FILES['my_file']['tmp_name']));
echo $my_str;

?>

viet_test.txt:

"Vietnamese" is "Tiếng Việt".

But, it returns wrong: ��"Vietnamese" is "Ti�ng Vi�t".. There is what I am looing for: "Vietnamese" is "Tiếng Việt" (in UTF-8).

Can you tell me: "What is wrong in my code? And, how to fix it?".

I am sorry, I am not very professional in PHP.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3156

Answers (1)

deceze
deceze

Reputation: 522091

You cannot read the file "as UTF-8". It contains UCS-2, so reading it you'll read a UCS-2 string. You can however convert the read UCS-2 string to UTF-8:

$my_str = file_get_contents($_FILES['my_file']['tmp_name']);
$my_str = mb_convert_encoding($my_str, 'UTF-8', 'UCS-2');
echo $my_str;

Note that you might have to use UCS-2BE or UCS-2LE explicitly.
If that still returns "nothing", you have a different problem than anything to do with encodings.

Upvotes: 1

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