pradosoft / prado

	 * @param string $from source encoding

	 * @return string UTF-8 encoded string, original string if iconv failed.

	 */

	function I18N_toUTF8($string, $from)

	{

		if ($from != 'UTF-8') {

			$s = iconv($from, 'UTF-8', $string); //to UTF-8

			return $s !== false ? $s : $string; //it could return false

		}

		return $string;

	}

	/**

	 * Convert UTF-8 strings to a different encoding. NB. The result

	 * @param string $to detination encoding

	 * @return string encoded string.

	 */

	function I18N_toEncoding($string, $to)

	{

		if ($to != 'UTF-8') {

			$s = iconv('UTF-8', $to, $string);

			return $s !== false ? $s : $string;

		}

		return $string;

	}