phranque - 10:34 pm on Jul 28, 2011 (gmt 0)

you can use the GNU iconv utility to convert to a different encoding.
there is also a PHP module that provides iconv support.

you might find this thread informative - Character encoding, entity references and UTF-8:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum21/11176.htm [webmasterworld.com]