From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T22:04:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Reliable character encodings conversion

On Sep 30, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Hubert Łępicki wrote:

> I am using Iconv library wrapper to convert texts to UTF8, but it's
> throwing "Iconv::IllegalSequence" exception.

You can add a //TRANSLIT to the end of the "to" encoding to have Iconv  
attempt to convert characters to reasonable equivalents in that  
encoding. This is usually more helpful when your input is all one  
encoding and just has some characters that won't translate well (like  
a UTF-8 … going to ISO-8859-1).

Your case of mixed encodings is probably best handled with //IGNORE  
instead, which asks Iconv to skip over any characters that cannot be  
converted.  You will loose some data with this, but it will convert  
what it can.

You can also use //TRANSLIT//IGNORE to convert what can be converted  
and skip the rest.

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II