Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded
/**
* Encode array from latin1 to utf8 recursively
* @param $dat
* @return array|string
*/
public static function convert_from_latin1_to_utf8_recursively($dat)
{
if (is_string($dat)) {
return utf8_encode($dat);
} elseif (is_array($dat)) {
$ret = [];
foreach ($dat as $i => $d) $ret[ $i ] = self::convert_from_latin1_to_utf8_recursively($d);
return $ret;
} elseif (is_object($dat)) {
foreach ($dat as $i => $d) $dat->$i = self::convert_from_latin1_to_utf8_recursively($d);
return $dat;
} else {
return $dat;
}
}
// Sample use
// Just pass your array or string and the UTF8 encode will be fixed
$data = convert_from_latin1_to_utf8_recursively($data);