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Simple Laravel 5 service class for neitanod's forceutf8: https://github.com/neitanod/forceutf8

Install

Add to composer.json

"require": {
        "danielme85/laravel-forceutf8": "dev-master",
        ....
}

If you use Laravel 5.5+ you could skip the next step as Composer/Laravel Auto-discovery has been enabled for this package.

Laravel 5.x

Add to your config/app.php under Service Providers

//Service Provider
danielme85\ForceUTF8\ForceUTF8ServiceProvider::class,
//Facade
'Encoding'  => danielme85\ForceUTF8\Encoding::class,

Lumen 5.x

Add to your boostrap/app.php file

$app->register(danielme85\ForceUTF8\ForceUTF8ServiceProvider::class);
...
$app->configure('app'); 
...
class_alias('danielme85\ForceUTF8\Encoding', 'Encoding');
$app->withFacades();

Usage

use danielme85\ForceUTF8\Encoding;
...
$newstring = Encoding::toUTF8($string);

Chekout neitanod's repo for more information on how to use the Encoding class: https://github.com/neitanod/forceutf8