Re: [PHP] mb_convert_encoding converting to ASCII instead of UTF-8

At 11:28 AM -0400 4/23/08, Robert William Vesterman wrote:
>A little additional info: The "ASCII to ASCII" 
>case for "Minnie=Mouse" is merely because the 
>UTF-8 encoding for "Mouse" is the same as the 
>ASCII encoding for "Mouse", and 
>mb_detect_encoding is matching on ASCII before 
>UTF-8.  So that's not an issue.
>
>But, the "UTF-8 to ASCII" case for 
>"Minnie=Miñoso" is still (seemingly) screwy.

Going for "UTF-8 to ASCII" is not going to work. 
The ASCII to UTF-8 works because ASCII is 
contained within UTF8. But the reverse is not 
true. Not all of UTF-8 is contained within ASCII.

For example, the character (code-point) ñ does 
not appear in ASCII, so that doesn't work.

Cheers,

tedd

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