I18N UTF-8 and iso

Hi All,
  We are working on a site that stores words in different languages (english,german,spanish,french) .when storing the data it has not been stored in one format (either iso8859-1 or UTF-8) .now we  are having problems when displaying ,what i do is convert the words to utf-8 and then display ..but some words are not getting displayed , if i reverse the process and change all the words to iso-8859-1 then some other words are not displayed properly . Can someone please help me out on this

<code>

// i even tried this header <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<? 
echo header("Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8"); 
$str="Allpaß ";

print " before str is $str <br>";
echo " after   ";
echo utf8_encode("str='$str'"); 
?>

</code>


  Regards,
  Kiran



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