Convert utf8-characters to iso-88591 and back in PHP

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Have a look at iconv() or mb_convert_encoding().
Just by the way: why don’t utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() work for you?

utf8_decode — Converts a string with
ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with
UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1

utf8_encode — Encodes an ISO-8859-1
string to UTF-8

So essentially

$utf8 = 'ÄÖÜ'; // file must be UTF-8 encoded
$iso88591_1 = utf8_decode($utf8);
$iso88591_2 = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1', $utf8);
$iso88591_2 = mb_convert_encoding($utf8, 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8');

$iso88591 = 'ÄÖÜ'; // file must be ISO-8859-1 encoded
$utf8_1 = utf8_encode($iso88591);
$utf8_2 = iconv('ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8', $iso88591);
$utf8_2 = mb_convert_encoding($iso88591, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1');

all should do the same – with utf8_en/decode() requiring no special extension, mb_convert_encoding() requiring ext/mbstring and iconv() requiring ext/iconv.

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