Encoding issues ... windows-1255 to utf 8?

Encoding convert from windows-1255 to utf-8 was asked before I know, but I'm still getting different results and I can't solve it.

The first issue is "does php iconv() or mb_convert_encoding() support windows-1255????" While testing, it returns several outputs (playing with the //ignore & //translate) but its not working well at all.

I was looking at mb_list_encodings() output and it doesn't include window-1255... playing and testing mb_detect_encoding() with an windows-1255 input (crawled from the net) doesn't return the good charset...

You should be able to just use strtr with an associative array of characters to convert (the data is available from MSDN, and converted into a PHP array below). Note that in this code, reserved byte values are replaced with the U+FFFD replacement character ("\xef\xbf\xbd").

function win1255ToUtf8($str) {
    static $tbl = null;
    if (!$tbl) {
        $tbl = array_combine(range("\x80", "\xff"), array(
            "\xe2\x82\xac", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xe2\x80\x9a", "\xc6\x92",
            "\xe2\x80\x9e", "\xe2\x80\xa6", "\xe2\x80\xa0", "\xe2\x80\xa1",
            "\xcb\x86", "\xe2\x80\xb0", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xe2\x80\xb9",
            "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd",
            "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xe2\x80\x98", "\xe2\x80\x99", "\xe2\x80\x9c",
            "\xe2\x80\x9d", "\xe2\x80\xa2", "\xe2\x80\x93", "\xe2\x80\x94",
            "\xcb\x9c", "\xe2\x84\xa2", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xe2\x80\xba",
            "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd",
            "\xc2\xa0", "\xc2\xa1", "\xc2\xa2", "\xc2\xa3", "\xe2\x82\xaa",
            "\xc2\xa5", "\xc2\xa6", "\xc2\xa7", "\xc2\xa8", "\xc2\xa9",
            "\xc3\x97", "\xc2\xab", "\xc2\xac", "\xc2\xad", "\xc2\xae",
            "\xc2\xaf", "\xc2\xb0", "\xc2\xb1", "\xc2\xb2", "\xc2\xb3",
            "\xc2\xb4", "\xc2\xb5", "\xc2\xb6", "\xc2\xb7", "\xc2\xb8",
            "\xc2\xb9", "\xc3\xb7", "\xc2\xbb", "\xc2\xbc", "\xc2\xbd",
            "\xc2\xbe", "\xc2\xbf", "\xd6\xb0", "\xd6\xb1", "\xd6\xb2",
            "\xd6\xb3", "\xd6\xb4", "\xd6\xb5", "\xd6\xb6", "\xd6\xb7",
            "\xd6\xb8", "\xd6\xb9", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xd6\xbb", "\xd6\xbc",
            "\xd6\xbd", "\xd6\xbe", "\xd6\xbf", "\xd7\x80", "\xd7\x81",
            "\xd7\x82", "\xd7\x83", "\xd7\xb0", "\xd7\xb1", "\xd7\xb2",
            "\xd7\xb3", "\xd7\xb4", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd",
            "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd",
            "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xd7\x90", "\xd7\x91", "\xd7\x92", "\xd7\x93",
            "\xd7\x94", "\xd7\x95", "\xd7\x96", "\xd7\x97", "\xd7\x98",
            "\xd7\x99", "\xd7\x9a", "\xd7\x9b", "\xd7\x9c", "\xd7\x9d",
            "\xd7\x9e", "\xd7\x9f", "\xd7\xa0", "\xd7\xa1", "\xd7\xa2",
            "\xd7\xa3", "\xd7\xa4", "\xd7\xa5", "\xd7\xa6", "\xd7\xa7",
            "\xd7\xa8", "\xd7\xa9", "\xd7\xaa", "\xef\xbf\xbd", "\xef\xbf\xbd",
            "\xe2\x80\x8e", "\xe2\x80\x8f", "\xef\xbf\xbd",
        ));
    }
    return strtr($str, $tbl);
}

I generated the above code with this PHP script:

function win1255ToUtf8($str) {
    static $tbl = null;
    if (!$tbl) {
        $tbl = array_combine(range("\x80", "\xff"), array(
            <?php

        function encodeString($str) {
            return '"' . preg_replace('/../', '\x$0', bin2hex($str)) . '"';
        }

        function codepointToUtf8($n) {
            return mb_convert_encoding(pack('V', $n), 'UTF-8', 'UTF-32LE');
        }

        $text = strip_tags( file_get_contents( 'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/cc305148.aspx') );
        preg_match_all('/([0-9A-F]{2}) = U\+([0-9A-F]{4})/', $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

        $table = array_fill(0, 128, "\xef\xbf\xbd");
        foreach ($matches as $match) {
            $input = hexdec($match[1]) - 128;
            if ($input >= 0) {
                $table[$input] = codepointToUtf8(hexdec($match[2]));
            }
        }

        $buf = '';
        foreach ($table as $from => $to) {
            $buf .= encodeString($to) . ', ';
        }
        echo wordwrap(substr($buf, 0, -1), 68, "\n            "), "\n";

?>
        ));
    }
    return strtr($str, $tbl);
}