all to utf-8

[nick patrick]

i want to convert the text to utf-8 all type of text to every language arabic etc

[whoisgregg]

Perhaps utf8_encode [php.net]() would be helpful then?

[nick patrick]

no because
i tried with windows-1256
but its not working when i tried to convert
$st = preg_replace("/([\340-\357])([\200-\277])([\200-\277])/e",
"'&#'.((ord('\\1')-224)*4096 + (ord('\\2')-128)*64 + (ord('\\3')-128)).';'",
$st);
$st = preg_replace("/([\300-\337])([\200-\277])/e",
"'&#'.((ord('\\1')-192)*64+(ord('\\2')-128)).';'",
$st);