Hi,

I wonder if someone can offer some wisdom, please, regarding a problem that has come my way:

I have a UTF8 file that contains mixed Latin and Arabic text that was extracted from a database that was encoded as ISO-8859-1 - so, essentially, as I understand it, the file is a utf8 encoding, of an ISO-8859-1 encoding, of Latin and non-Latin text (don't ask! :-).

I am trying to parse this stuff into a format suitable for insertion into a UTF-8 database, but am having trouble with the non-Latin stuff. The Latin stuff is fine.

I have not needed to mess around with encodings much in the past, so am rather out of my depth. I have tried various alternative 'layerings' or 'raw', 'utf8', and 'iso-8859-1' to try to get back to something that will go into the database and display correctly, but so far with no luck - different combinations produce different output, of course; but so far none of it any more helpful than what I started with!

Is it even possible to achieve what I am attempting?? If so, any pointers would be most gratefully received!

Thanks in advance!

GRS

In reply to Encoding problem by grscott

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