read csv contaning arabic and english in php

Question

welcome

im trying to read csv file in php my file contain Arabic data

what charset must be use to show correct result ??

echo iconv("???????",'UTF-8',$data[$c]."\0");  

Answer 1

Arabic is usually encoded as ISO8859-6, so try:

echo iconv("ISO-8859-6",'UTF-8',$data[$c]."\0");  

Check out encoding check and Determine and change file character encoding for information on how to find which encoding.

As well, you have to make sure that you use UTF-8 everywhere, and that PHP is configure to handle UTF-8.

In the html, add the meta-tag:

<meta charset="utf-8" />

And save it in UTF-8 format. here is how to do that in notepad++.

Enable UTF-8 in the php.ini:

default_charset = "utf-8"

For a full manual check Handling Unicode Front To Back In A Web App

Answer 2

If its not already UTF-8 then it will most likely being iso 8859-6.

But you can't be sure. To get sure you'll have to know the source encoding as it cannot be detected reliable.