Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

Question

I\'m reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database.

Of course, there are several different character encodings used in the fee

Answer 1

@harpax that worked for me. In my case, this is good enough:

if (isUTF8($str)) { 
    echo $str; 
}
else
{
    echo iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT", $str);
}