I tried a lot of things, but this seems to be the final fail save method to convert any string to proper UTF-8.
<?php
function _convert($content) {
if(!mb_check_encoding($content, 'UTF-8')
OR !($content === mb_convert_encoding(mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-32', 'UTF-8' ), 'UTF-8', 'UTF-32'))) {
$content = mb_convert_encoding($content, 'UTF-8');
if (mb_check_encoding($content, 'UTF-8')) {
// log('Converted to UTF-8');
} else {
// log('Could not converted to UTF-8');
}
}
return $content;
}
?>