Posted by iktorn on 07/11/07 19:56

Markus napisał(a):
> Hello
>
> I try to write RTF files using text in UTF-8 encoding. Converting the
> text with utf8_decode() already fails on characters such as an
> apostrophe or an endash.
>
> So these are actually my questions:
> - Is there a good way to convert an UTF-8 string into CP1252, without
> losing the non-CP1252 character info? (mbstring is not available on that
> server)

You will always lose some characters wile converting utf-8 to encoding
that can handle up to 255 chars.

I haven't done anything related to RTF, but to convert UTF8 to CP-1252
you can use iconv library:
http://pl.php.net/manual/en/ref.iconv.php

with optional //IGNORE and //TRANSLIT modifiers

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Wiktor Walc
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Freelance PHP Developer

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