php, one more time about encoding

Question

PHP

The essence of the subject is as follows.
There is an icecast2 server (this is an audio broadcasting server), it has a page where information about channels is displayed.
By means of php I take away the name of the current track and here the problem waits.
And it lies in the fact that songs with Cyrillic names look something like this - "Alina Grosu - Chalk on asphalt".
I need it to be normal utf-8. I tried the Lebedev decoder - it converts from cp1252 to cp1251.
I tried it myself both through iconv and through mb_character_encoding to convert from cp1252 to utf-8 = even more terrible kryakozyabry is obtained.
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So I'm asking the habra community for advice - maybe there is some kind of solution?

Answer 1

"Alina Grosu - Chalk on asphalt" - what encoding does it come to you?
If it's a single-byte encoding, then you need

$string = iconv('cp1251', 'utf-8', $string);

If it comes to you in utf-8, then you need to do this:

$string = iconv('utf-8', 'cp1252', $string);
$string = iconv('cp1251', 'utf-8', $string);

Answer 2

and yes, you need to convert CP1252 → CP1251 → UTF-8 (or immediately CP1252 → UTF-8), not UTF-8 → CP1252, as you do ...

Answer 3

mb_detect_encoding($str); defines the encoding. Just used it myself.
I know it's been 3 years, but I'm sure someone else will come in handy!