How to write file in UTF-8 format

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I have bunch of files that are not in UTF-8 encoding and I'm converting a site to UTF-8 encoding.

I'm using simple script for files that I want to save in utf-8, but the files are saved in old encoding:

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
$fpath="folder";
$d=dir($fpath);
while (False !== ($a = $d->read()))
 {

 if ($a != '.' and $a != '..')
  {

  $npath=$fpath.'/'.$a;

  $data=file_get_contents($npath);

  file_put_contents('tempfolder/'.$a, $data);

  }

 }

How can I save files in utf-8 encoding?

Nov 5, 2020 in PHP by kartik
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1 answer to this question.

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Hello @kartik,

file_get_contents / file_put_contents will not magically convert encoding.

You have to convert the string explicitly; for example with iconv() or mb_convert_encoding().

Try this:

$data = file_get_contents($npath);
$data = mb_convert_encoding($data, 'UTF-8', 'OLD-ENCODING');
file_put_contents('tempfolder/'.$a, $data);

Or alternatively, with PHP's stream filters:

$fd = fopen($file, 'r');
stream_filter_append($fd, 'convert.iconv.UTF-8/OLD-ENCODING');
stream_copy_to_stream($fd, fopen($output, 'w'));

Hope it helps!!

ThanK You!!

answered Nov 5, 2020 by Niroj
• 82,840 points

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