From:             victorepand at gmail dot com
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      4.4.7
PHP Bug Type:     *Languages/Translation
Bug description:  utf8_encode is missing characters

Description:
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I have used the function utf8_encode to encode iso-8859-1 pages into UTF-8
and displayed them on my site, but strange and funny characters are
appearing such as "" and "Â".

It turns out that the iso-8859-1 page contains the use of characters such
as these:
©,’,—,“,”,®,™,…
These characters display fine on my browser from the iso-8859-1 page, but
when I use the utf8_encode function and display it on my utf-8 page, the
result is garbled.

So I have found the only solution is to manually convert all of the
characters above before using the utf8_encode function and that solves the
problem crudely, but it is not a perfect solution. What if I have missed
any characters? Isn't there a cleaner method, a PHP function, that will do
all this conversion without worry and without missing any characters?



Reproduce code:
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Here is an example of an iso-8859-1 page which displays fine on my
browser, but contains such characters such as ©,’,—,“,”,®,™,… mentioned
above:
http://www.jardenstore.com/product.aspx?bid=18&pid=1251


Expected result:
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After using the utf8_encode function, I expected to see the page
displaying correctly again on my UTF-8 page with these characters intact:
©,’,—,“,”,®,™,… 

Actual result:
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Instead, the result was garbled like this:
‘,—,–,’,Â,â€â„¢,â€â„¢,â€,é,ð,™,œ,,è,Ž,Â

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