On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Brian Vuyk <brian@brianvuyk.com> wrote:

Hi all.

I am having a bit of a unique problem here, and I am hoping someone can help me out.

In short, we are outputting strings from a custom module we wrote to an external service that only accepts the ASCII character set. So, I am trying to run all the strings through iconv() to convert them.

Here's the weird part. Take the script below:

$string = "Stéphanie,D Hérouville";
$output = iconv("UTF-8", 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);
print $output;

If I run this from the command line, I get the proper output - 'Stephanie D Herouville'. However, if I run it in my Drupal installation, whether as part of a module or from the Devel 'Execute PHP' box, I get different output: 'St?phanie D H?rouville'. That is, instead of replacing the character with it's expected ASCII counterpart, it replaces it with a ?.

Has anyone encountered this, or have any idea why this is happening?

Brian