pound sign in CSV file are not read during PHP fopen

Question

Hi, I am having a problem, pound signs and single quotes are being read from a file as � My code is below:

$fh = fopen($_FILES['importFile']['tmp_name'], "r");
$contents = fread($fh, filesize($_FILES['importFile']['tmp_name']));
var_dump($contents);

Does anybody know how to fix this issue. I know its an encoding issue but unsure as to how to fix it. The file is a CSV file. Thanks

Answer 1

Use mb_convert_encoding() to convert the text from the encoding used in the file to your output encoding.