Encoding SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS into UTF-8

Question

I\'m generating a XML file with PHP using DomDocument and I need to handle asian characters. I\'m pulling data from the MSSQL2008 server using the pdo_mssql driver and I app

Answer 1

No need for crazy stuff. Collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS character encoding is: Windows-1252

This works perfect for me: $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252');