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

This version is for German language but you can modifiy the $CHARSETS and the $TESTCHARS

class CharsetDetector
{
private static $CHARSETS = array(
"ISO_8859-1",
"ISO_8859-15",
"CP850"
);
private static $TESTCHARS = array(
"€",
"ä",
"Ä",
"ö",
"Ö",
"ü",
"Ü",
"ß"
);
public static function convert($string)
{
    return self::__iconv($string, self::getCharset($string));
}
public static function getCharset($string)
{
    $normalized = self::__normalize($string);
    if(!strlen($normalized))return "UTF-8";
    $best = "UTF-8";
    $charcountbest = 0;
    foreach (self::$CHARSETS as $charset) {
        $str = self::__iconv($normalized, $charset);
        $charcount = 0;
        $stop   = mb_strlen( $str, "UTF-8");

        for( $idx = 0; $idx < $stop; $idx++)
        {
            $char = mb_substr( $str, $idx, 1, "UTF-8");
            foreach (self::$TESTCHARS as $testchar) {

                if($char == $testchar)
                {

                    $charcount++;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        if($charcount>$charcountbest)
        {
            $charcountbest=$charcount;
            $best=$charset;
        }
        //echo $text."
";
    }
    return $best;
}
private static function __normalize($str)
{

$len = strlen($str);
$ret = "";
for($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++){
    $c = ord($str[$i]);
    if ($c > 128) {
        if (($c > 247)) $ret .=$str[$i];
        elseif ($c > 239) $bytes = 4;
        elseif ($c > 223) $bytes = 3;
        elseif ($c > 191) $bytes = 2;
        else $ret .=$str[$i];
        if (($i + $bytes) > $len) $ret .=$str[$i];
        $ret2=$str[$i];
        while ($bytes > 1) {
            $i++;
            $b = ord($str[$i]);
            if ($b < 128 || $b > 191) {$ret .=$ret2; $ret2=""; $i+=$bytes-1;$bytes=1; break;}
            else $ret2.=$str[$i];
            $bytes--;
        }
    }
}
return $ret; 
}
private static function __iconv($string, $charset)
{
    return iconv ( $charset, "UTF-8" , $string );
}
}