neitanod/forceutf8

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A PHP library providing static Encoding class methods (toUTF8, fixUTF8, toLatin1) that convert strings of unknown or mixed encoding—Latin1, Windows-1252, UTF-8, or combinations—into clean UTF-8. It also repairs double- or multiply-encoded (garbled/mojibake) UTF-8 strings, with optional iconv flags for transliteration or character dropping.

Use cases

• fix garbled utf8 strings in php
• convert latin1 or windows-1252 strings to utf8
• repair double-encoded utf8 text
• clean mixed encoding from unreliable data sources
• normalize string encoding before storing in database
• fix mojibake like Fédération to Fédération
• handle mixed utf8 and latin1 in the same string

When to choose

• you have PHP strings with unknown or mixed encodings (Latin1, Windows-1252, UTF-8) that need to be normalized to UTF-8
• you need to repair double- or multiply-encoded UTF-8 (mojibake) without knowing how many times it was encoded
• you're ingesting data from unreliable sources like legacy databases, scrapes, or third-party APIs with inconsistent encoding
• you want a simple static-method API with no dependencies beyond optional iconv

When to avoid

• you need full character-set detection beyond Latin1/Windows-1252/UTF-8 (consider mb_detect_encoding or a dedicated detection library)
• you're not working in PHP
• you need streaming or very large text processing with performance-critical encoding conversion
• you need transliteration to ASCII or locale-aware case folding

Facets

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serialization parser developer-tools developer-tools web-development php encoding utf8 character-encoding string-manipulation text-processing encoding-detection latin1 windows-1252 mojibake data-cleaning natural-language-processing

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