When I convert a sample string like this:
$str = "اوقات-شرعی-جمعه-8-مرداد-ماه-به-اÙÙ‚-اردبیل"
echo mb_convert_encoding($str, "ASCII");
from UTF-8 to ASCII the result should be this:
%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF-%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B2%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%BE%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1
But it's this :
?????????????????????-????????????????-??????????????????-8-?????????????????????-??????????????-?????????-?????????????-?????????????????????????
I'm really get confused Anyone knows the problem?
UPDATE : I also tryed iconv:
echo iconv("UTF-8", "ASCII", $str), PHP_EOL;
But it says :
Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string