utf-8 ascii encoding errors

[mavera2]

after some parsing of an outer site,

i set the variable

$word1 to the obtained string.

 

when i make

$word1Encod=mb_detect_encoding($word1);

it gives ASCII.

 

i have a string like:

$mycomment="başlamış bugün"

then

$mycommentEncod=mb_detect_encoding($mycomment);

it gives UTF-8.

 

when i join them as

$joined= $word1 . $mycomment;

it gives UTF-8.

 

But the final string has characters like

ü

ı

which are turkish characters, which are found in variable $word1.

 

Although UTF-8 includes ASCII characters, I tried

mb_convert_encoding($word1,"UTF-8","ASCII");

But still it didn't help.

 

My php file's encoding is UTF-8.

I tried UTF-8 without BOM, as well.

 

Do you have any recommendation?

Thank you

 

[requinix]

Recommendation for what? What's the problem?

[mavera2]

The problem is, in an UTF-8 coded php file,

when i join an ASCII coded string with UTF coded string,

feed readers show ASCII characters of strings as

Ü

ü

etc.

[requinix]

You can't convert Turkish characters into ASCII encoding.

 

How are you generating the XML? I suspect the problem is that whatever you use is turning the UTF-8 octets into numeric HTML entities. Probably because it doesn't know better: wrong encoding on the feed, not smart enough...