[Mediawiki-l] encoding problems using values from extensions (still)

[=James Birkholz=]

At 03:45 PM 3/20/05, you wrote:
>=James Birkholz= wrote:
>>Well, I just tried:
>>
>>mb_convert_encoding($theTown, "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8");
>>echo mb_detect_encoding($theTown);
>
>You need to be looking at the return value from the function; it doesn't
>change the parameters.

I tried it this way:
$newStr = mb_convert_encoding($theTown, "ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8");
echo mb_detect_encoding($newStr);

Stills echoes ast UTF-8.


>>$newStr = utf8_decode($theTown) ;
>>echo mb_detect_encoding($newStr);
>>
>>but I still get "UTF-8" echo'ed...
>>did I do it wrong?
>
>If you don't give it a sensible list of encodings to try,
>mb_detect_encoding() seems to give totally incorrect results. Try:
>
>echo mb_detect_encoding($newStr, "UTF-8,ISO-8859-1,ASCII");

The manual only shows one parameter, but I tried it anyway and got a "too 
many parmeters" error.

(sigh)

Really think I'm barking up the wrong overgrown bush...