PHP Curl post with non-english characters

[mRAza]

you can ignore that error with @ ( some text's encoding is not being recognized by iconv)

$message = @iconv("UTF-8","Windows-1252//IGNORE",$message); 

[ajinkya9]

@ t3dor
Are you sure, you know how Unicode and encoding works?
It's pretty simple - If you have some data, Decode it to Unicode, work on it, and then encode it to utf-8 when saving to file.

BTW here's your culprit:

vBulletin's main character encoding is ISO-8859-1, not UTF-8

So you should instead encode to ISO-8859

But there's another catch

It is very common to mislabel Windows-1252 text with the charset label ISO-8859-1. A common result was that all the quotes and apostrophes (produced by "smart quotes" in Microsoft software) were replaced with question marks or boxes on non-Windows operating systems, making text difficult to read. Most modern web browsers and e-mail clients treat the MIME charset ISO-8859-1 as Windows-1252 in order to accommodate such mislabeling. This is now standard behavior in the draft HTML 5 specification, which requires that documents advertised as ISO-8859-1 actually be parsed with the Windows-1252 encoding

That's life, deal with it.

[Halcyon]

You can also check utf8_decode and utf8_encode functions to do the same

[JmZ]

curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "UTF-8" );

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...TF8-supporting

FYI that is to determine the accept-encoding header, not the encoding of the data being sent.

[masterofdeath]

Use charset=ISO-8859-9 for turkish

try

curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER , array( 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-9', ));