Detect encoding and make everything UTF-8

Question

I\'m reading out lots of texts from various RSS feeds and inserting them into my database.

Of course, there are several different character encodings used in the fee

Answer 1

It's simple: when you get something that's not UTF-8, you must encode that into UTF-8.

So, when you're fetching a certain feed that's ISO 8859-1 parse it through utf8_encode.

However, if you're fetching an UTF-8 feed, you don't need to do anything.