PHP: Dealing special characters with iconv

Question

I still don\'t understand how iconv works.

For instance,

$string = \"Löic & René\";
$output = iconv(\"UTF-8\", \"ISO-8859-1//TRANSL         


        

Answer 1

And did you save your source file in UTF-8 encoding? If not (and I guess you didn't since that will produce the "incomplete multibyte character" error), then try that first.

Answer 2

$clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', utf8_encode($s));