I am trying to convert an iso-8859-1 string with accented characters to utf-8. For instance, here is one : à7ç1ç6êñt
On windows machine with php 5.2.5 , both functions succeed . On Gentoo php 5.2.6 , the character à gets lost and anything the '7' is preserve including the accented characters. This is true for any accented characters preceding a non-accented character. If these accented characters precede a non-accented character , these will get lost. Has anyone seen this before ?