UTF-8 problems while reading CSV file with fgetcsv

Question

I try to read a CSV and echo the content. But the content displays the characters wrong.

Mäx Müstermänn -> Mäx Müstermänn

Encoding of the CSV file is UT

Answer 1

The problem is that the function returns UTF-8 (it can check using mb_detect_encoding), but do not convert, and these characters takes as UTF-8. Тherefore, it's necessary to do the reverse-convert to initial encoding (Windows-1251 or CP1251) using iconv. But since by the fgetcsv returns an array, I suggest to write a custom function: [Sorry for my english]

function customfgetcsv(&$handle, $length, $separator = ';'){
    if (($buffer = fgets($handle, $length)) !== false) {
        return explode($separator, iconv("CP1251", "UTF-8", $buffer));
    }
    return false;
}