i am trying to get some information from a webpage however it is in a different encoding is there an easy way to convert to utf8 and then use it?
For example i am getting these urls which i will need to visit
http://www.mega.co.il/jsfweb/cat/טופו/
http://www.mega.co.il/jsfweb/cat/גבינה_מלוחה/
http://www.mega.co.il/jsfweb/cat/גבינה_לארוח/
http://www.mega.co.il/jsfweb/cat/גבינה_מותכת/
http://www.mega.co.il/jsfweb/cat/גבינה_צהובה/
http://www.mega.co.il/jsfweb/cat/גבינה_לבנה/
http://www.mega.co.il/jsfweb/cat/קוטג/
how do i turn that to utf8 and then urlencode in php?
You can try function html_entity_decode() to decode that entities. To change decoding, use mb_convert_encoding(). I have no experience with Hebrew, so I don’t know if it would work.