UTF8 to latin1_swedish_ci

Question

There are a lot of topics about latin1_swedisch_ci to utf8 conversion. But what about the other way around? I\'m dealing for quite a long time with this problem and I haven\

Answer 1

iconv() will convert strings from one encoding to the other.

The encodings that are of interest to you are utf-8 and iso-8859-1 - the latter is equivalent with latin1.

The "swedish", "german" etc. localizations affect issues like sorting only, the character encoding is always the same.

PS.

then I have to write something like $name='Bürki'.

If you encode your source file as UTF-8, you can write Bürki directly. (You would then have to convert that string into iso-8859-1)

Answer 2

I agree with Pekka, however, I would try to use the utf8_decode() function instead because it is possible that iconv is not installed...

Iconv, however, is more powerful - it can do transliteration for an example. But for this purpose I believe utf8_decode() is enough.