Hello monks, I am currently running into a bit of a problem with text encoding issues. The story is that there is this data whose character encoding is UTF-8, the data happens to be made up of cyrillic characters. This data must reside on a database whose character encoding is cp1252 (or windows-1252).

I have used Encode to 
decode('cp1252', encode('utf8', $my_utf_data));

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to insert into the database, then the reverse when reading it out.

The problem is that there are a few characters which got 'garbled', the cyrillic characters ya and es are now shown as a w with a squiggly over them. Is there a different way of taking the utf8 bytes and storing them as cp1252 bytes so that they may later be read as cp1252 bytes and converted to utf8 bytes for display?
Thanks,

your help is much appreciated,

Joe

In reply to Character encoding fun... by Anonymous Monk

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