Well, I just tried:
mb_convert_encoding($theTown, "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8");
echo mb_detect_encoding($theTown);
and
$newStr = utf8_decode($theTown) ;
echo mb_detect_encoding($newStr);
but I still get "UTF-8" echo'ed...
did I do it wrong?
Alternatatively, anyone got a clever regex syntax to make this approach
more general?
if (ereg("Schneidem.+hl", $theTown))
{
$theTown = 'Schneidemühl';
}
I may be chasing the wrong squirrel, because the above routine works and
makes the mySQL query work, but when I place the same echo debug, I still
get "UTF-8" echoed....
????