12Feb/100
Character encoding
When working on the Food Library for TULM I ran into a problem with character encoding. All æ, ø and å's were being transformed into wierd looking characters.
I needed a way to fix this issue, without the use of str_replace or something similar, since I was retrieving HTML pages with more than 4,000 lines - which would make the str_replace on 10 pages pretty resource intensive.
After looking on the InterGoogle, I found a good solution. PHP comes with a function called iconv.
The syntax for this function is
iconv ( string $in_charset , string $out_charset , string $str )
and by using the following code, this solved my problem and displayed all characters exactly as i wanted them.
$txt = iconv('UTF-8','ISO-8859-1',$txt);
I hope this will be useful to some, so you can avoid going emo due to wrong character encoding from remote sources 
