I am using League/CSV Laravel package to read and manipulate CSV file and save that CSV data into a database but I am facing some issues for some rows only which has some special characters like "45.6 ºF" while reading data from CSV.
I have searched a lot about this problem and found that we should use "UTF-8" or "utf8mb4" in the database collation and save that CSV in "utf8" also but it works only for all those special characters which are on the keyboard.
I want to use all type of special characters like "45.6 ºF" which are not on the keyboard also.
Currently, my code is reading CSV column data and convert it into binary data ' b"column value" ' It adds "b" with the string and converts that string into binary value for only those strings which have any special characters.
I have spent a lot of time but could not find any better solution to this problem. So please help me, I shall be very thankful to you.
$reader = Reader::createFromPath(public_path().'/question.csv', 'r');
$reader->setHeaderOffset(0);
$records = $reader->getRecords();
foreach ($records as $offset => $record) {
$qs = Question::first();
$qs->question = $record['Question'];
$qs->save();
}
It is giving me this result after reading from CSV with "b".
array:2 [▼
"ID" => "1"
"Question" => b"Fahrenheit to Celsius (ºF to ºC) conversion calculator for temperature conversions with additional tables and formulas"
]
but it should be in the string format without "b" binary.
If I copy that string with special characters and assign it to the static variable, then it works fine and saves data into a database like this
$a="Fahrenheit to Celsius (ºF to ºC) conversion calculator for temperature conversions with additional tables and formulas";
$qs = Question::first();
$qs->question = $a;
$qs->save();
After a lot of struggle, i have found the solution of this problem. I just added this line to code to convert it into utf8_encode before saving in the database.
$r = array_map("utf8_encode", $record);
Don't just copy paste the text from google to save in database because copy paste text and special characters don't work most of the time.
Thanks.
