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

The most voted answer doesn't work. Here is mine and hope it helps.

function toUTF8($raw) {
    try{
        return mb_convert_encoding($raw, "UTF-8", "auto"); 
    }catch(\Exception $e){
        return mb_convert_encoding($raw, "UTF-8", "GBK"); 
    }
}