Is there a way which checks a CSV-file for UTF-8 without BOM encoding? I want to check the whole file and not a single string.
I would try to set the first line with a special character and than reading the string and checking if it matches the same string hard-coded in my script. But I don't know if this is a good idea.
Google only showed me this. But the link in the last post isn't available.
if (mb_check_encoding(file_get_contents($file), 'UTF-8')) {
// yup, all UTF-8
}
You can also go through it line by line with fgets
, if the file is large and you don't want to store it all in memory at once. Not sure what you mean by the second part of your question.
I recommand this function (from the symfony toolkit):
<?php
/**
* Checks if a string is an utf8.
*
* Yi Stone Li<yili@yahoo-inc.com>
* Copyright (c) 2007 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
* Licensed under the BSD open source license
*
* @param string
*
* @return bool true if $string is valid UTF-8 and false otherwise.
*/
public static function isUTF8($string)
{
for ($idx = 0, $strlen = strlen($string); $idx < $strlen; $idx++)
{
$byte = ord($string[$idx]);
if ($byte & 0x80)
{
if (($byte & 0xE0) == 0xC0)
{
// 2 byte char
$bytes_remaining = 1;
}
else if (($byte & 0xF0) == 0xE0)
{
// 3 byte char
$bytes_remaining = 2;
}
else if (($byte & 0xF8) == 0xF0)
{
// 4 byte char
$bytes_remaining = 3;
}
else
{
return false;
}
if ($idx + $bytes_remaining >= $strlen)
{
return false;
}
while ($bytes_remaining--)
{
if ((ord($string[++$idx]) & 0xC0) != 0x80)
{
return false;
}
}
}
}
return true;
}
But as it check all the characters of the string, I don't recommand to use it on a large file. Just check the first 10 lines i.e.
<?php
$handle = fopen("mycsv.csv", "r");
$check_string = "";
$line = 1;
if ($handle) {
while ((($buffer = fgets($handle, 4096)) !== false) && $line < 11) {
$check_string .= $buffer;
$line++;
}
if (!feof($handle)) {
echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
}
fclose($handle);
var_dump( self::isUTF8($check_string) );
}