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Decoding strings on PHP: Data treats UTF-8 Bytes as Windows-1252

I am getting data from a web API which has a strange encoding. I am using PHP and can't seem to decode input strings. I seem to be having this problem, which explains what's going but doesn't really help me figure out how to fix it. Can anyone help? Thanks!

Solution

  • You may want to try analyzing the encoding using something like mb_detect_encoding().

    http://www.php.net/mb_detect_encoding