PHP: Converting UTF-8 string to Ansi?
ansi, php
Solution
Try:
$csv = iconv("UTF-8", "Windows-1252", $csv);
But you will eventually lose data because ANSI can only encode a small subset of UTF-8. If you don't have a very strong reason against it, serve your files UTF-8 encoded.
Problem
I build a csv string from values I have in my DB. The final string is stored in my $csv variable. Now I offer this string for download, like this: ``` header("Content-type: text/csv"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=whatever.csv"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); echo $csv; ``` When I open this in Notepad++ for example, it says Ansi as UTF-8. How can I chnage that to Ansi only? I tried: ``` $csv = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "WINDOWS-1252", $csv); ``` That did not change anything. Thanks! Solution: $csv = iconv("UTF-8", "WINDOWS-1252", $csv);