Hi, 1. libiconv is basically far better at transliteration than glibc iconv.
2. glibc iconv supports yet another external option. See http://bugs.php.net/20809 Hope this helps. Moriyoshi Jan Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody have some experience or even did some extensive testing on > how successful iconv, mbstring and recode are when it comes to charset > conversions? > > I currently try iconv() with transliteration first and fallback to > mb_convert_encoding() if this fails. The rationale is that iconv > supports much more charsets than mbstring but fails if it detects an > invalid character for the input charset. > > I have no experiences yet with recode (neither in php nor generally), > does it perhaps even use the same libiconv as iconv? > > Anything that throws some light on this is welcome. > > Jan. -- PHP Internationalization Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
