Question

I have script that reads remote file content and writes it to local server. File contains characters: ąčęėįšųūž. After data insertion into local file, UTF-8 encoding is lost.
My script code:

<?php 

$data = file_get_contents('remote_file_address');

echo $data; //encoding is ok

$file = dirname(__FILE__) . '/../downloads/data.csv';

file_put_contents($file,$data); //invalid encoding in data.csv file

?>

I also followed the instructions depending this post(How to write file in UTF-8 format?), but still no good.

So what is wrong with that? Any ideas?

Answer 1

The problem was remote file with windows-1257 encoding. I found the solution here.

So the correct code should look like this:

<?php 

$data = file_get_contents('remote_file_address');

$data = iconv("CP1257","UTF-8", $data);

$file = dirname(__FILE__) . '/../downloads/data.csv';

file_put_contents($file,$data);

?>