Question

Want to use iconv() on each item in an array and store them to a different array, then reassign the new array to the old one. Is this the correct way to do it?

foreach($partinfo as $key=>$item) {
  $p[$key] = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT', $item);
}
$partinfo = $p;

Answer 1

You can get a string’s encoding by using mb_detect_encoding:

mb_detect_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', true);

Source: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-detect-encoding.php

After your loop, just write another test loop that goes through and echoes out the return value and see for yourself.