Convert Windows-1252 csv to UTF-8 using PHP

Question

I'm using fopen to read in a csv and fgetcsv to read the csv lines. The csv is encoded as Windows-1252, how do I convert this to UTF-8 so it doesn't cut lines with none standard characters?

So far I've tried the following:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_GB.UTF-8');

and

drupal_convert_to_utf8($csv_line[3], 'Windows-1251'); // (I'm using Drupal 6.16)

Both seem to fail.

Answer 1

you can use iconv for this kind of work.