Hi,

I've got a UTF8 file (set in "UTF-8 without BOM" in Notepad++), and I'm trying to convert it automatically to ANSI, so I can read it and place in my latin1 mySQL table

Thus far I have: 

system("iconv --from-code UTF-8 --to-code iso-8859-15 -c /var/home/sit
+e/siteforum.com/www/admin/Plugins/Forum/Advertiser/Import/tmp/allVaca
+tions.xml > /var/home/site/siteforum.com/www/admin/Plugins/Forum/Adve
+rtiser/Import/tmp/allVacations.xml.new");
    print qq|Done converting... \n|;
    system("perl -p -i -e 's|UTF-8|ISO-8859-15|g' *.new");
    system("rm /var/home/site/siteforum.com/www/admin/Plugins/Forum/Ad
+vertiser/Import/tmp/allVacations.xml");
    print qq|Removed allVacations.xml... \n|;
    system("mv /var/home/site/siteforum.com/www/admin/Plugins/Forum/Ad
+vertiser/Import/tmp/allVacations.xml.new /var/home/site/siteforum.com
+/www/admin/Plugins/Forum/Advertiser/Import/tmp/allVacations.xml");
    print qq|Moved file ... \n|;
    system("rm -f /var/home/site/siteforum.com/www/admin/Plugins/Forum
+/Advertiser/Import/tmp/allVacations.xml.new");
    print qq|Removed .new file... \n|;

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This "seems" to work... but for some reason when I open this new file in NotePad++, it doesn't seem to recognise the encoding type (it also comes up weird in the DB, i.e "Vols + transferts + hébergement en formule "tout ...")

Am I invoking `iconv` incorrecty, or maybe something else?

Been driving me nuts for hours trying to fix this :(

BTW: doing a conversion with a perl module isn't really idea, due to the fact this file is 30+mb in size, and an XML file (so its not very effecient to keep using utf8($string)->latin; for every value in that XML file)

TIA!

Andy

In reply to utf file to ansi, but doesn't work? by ultranerds

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