API15:JString/transcode

transcode($source, $from_encoding, $to_encoding)

jimport( 'joomla.utilities.string' );

function transcode($source, $from_encoding, $to_encoding) {
 
        if (is_string($source)) {
                /*
                 * "//TRANSLIT" is appendd to the $to_encoding to ensure that when iconv comes
                 * across a character that cannot be represented in the target charset, it can
                 * be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters.
                 */
                return iconv($from_encoding, $to_encoding.'//TRANSLIT', $source);
        }
}