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I’m trying to convert a string from iso-8859-1 to utf-8.
But when I find these two charachter € and • the function returns
a charachter that is a square with two number inside.
How can I solve this issue?
I think the encoding you are looking for is Windows code page 1252 (Western European). It is not the same as ISO-8859-1 (or 8859-15 for that matter); the characters in the range 0xA0-0xFF match 8859-1, but cp1252 adds an assortment of extra characters in the range 0x80-0x9F where ISO-8859-1 assigns little-used control codes.
The confusion comes about because when you serve a page as
text/html;charset=iso-8859-1, for historical reasons, browsers actually use cp1252 (and will hence submit forms in cp1252 too).