I’m having issues with reading Czech characters from a txt file.
I want to read .txt files containing categories line by line. With general languages I have no issue. I can read the txt file line by line and copy the categories that I want in an array.
But as soon as I want to read a txt file that contains categories in the Czech language I get problems processing the output of my code. The Czech specific characters are coming out rubbish even though the text file is showing the characters correctly.
As an example: The letters ě, č, ů or ř are all outputed as a square or as st\u001b or other rubish, depending on the way I read the file.
Origionally I use the fgets function to read a line from the text file.
But as this didn’t return the correct characters I started testing with adding utf8_encode but whilst that changed some characters it still didn’t restore all the characters.
Then I started experimenting with mb_detect_encoding combined with mb_convert_encoding and later read somewhere that fgets could sometimes return incorrect characters so I started testing with file_get_contents. This also didn’t solve the issue.
I assume the main issue is with the way I’m reading the txt file as the output from the fgets and file_get_contents functions are garbled from the start.
Can anyone tell me how to read a text file with Czech characters correctly?
Thanks In advance.
Oké I found the solution myself. Just for the case someone else runs into this issue, the txt file was in the wrong coding. The file was in the "UCS-2 Little Endian" coding. After loading the file in Notepad++ I could encode it to the UTF-8 format and that solved the problem.