From 717022a81d205a06cd409d2874eeefcb33180b00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garvin Hicking <mail@garv.in>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 20:59:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix iconv bug, thanks to Matthias Leise

---
 docs/NEWS                 | 3 +++
 include/functions.inc.php | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/NEWS b/docs/NEWS
index dfce7e23..be261797 100644
--- a/docs/NEWS
+++ b/docs/NEWS
@@ -241,6 +241,9 @@ Version 1.1-alpha5()
 Version 1.0.1 ()
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+   * Fix utf8 iconv conversion failing on some older PHP setups.
+     Thanks to Matthias Leisi!
+
    * Fix multi-authors view only showing first author (garvinhicking)
 
    * Fix bug sending comment-notification mails to subscribed users 
diff --git a/include/functions.inc.php b/include/functions.inc.php
index 772ae7b1..c0d634ed 100644
--- a/include/functions.inc.php
+++ b/include/functions.inc.php
@@ -537,7 +537,12 @@ function serendipity_fetchReferences($id) {
 function serendipity_utf8_encode($string) {
     if (strtolower(LANG_CHARSET) != 'utf-8') {
         if (function_exists('iconv')) {
-            return iconv(LANG_CHARSET, 'UTF-8', $string);
+            $new = iconv(LANG_CHARSET, 'UTF-8', $string);
+            if ($new !== false) {
+                return $new;
+            } else {
+                return utf8_encode($string);
+            }
         } else if (function_exists('mb_convert_encoding')) {
             return mb_convert_encoding($string, 'UTF-8', LANG_CHARSET);
         } else {