Phpspreadsheet: ErrorException : iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from `MACCENTRALEUROPE' to `UTF-8//IGNORE//TRANSLIT' is not allowed

[huglester]

This is:

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• [x] a bug report

What is the expected behavior?

Should open the file

What is the current behavior?

throws exception:
ErrorException : iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from MACCENTRALEUROPE' toUTF-8//IGNORE//TRANSLIT' is not allowed

What are the steps to reproduce?

$spreadsheet = IOFactory::load($source);

Which versions of PhpSpreadsheet and PHP are affected?

1.5.x and 1.6.0

Thanks

[ricardobarantini]

I'm having the same issue.

[jannovy]

Mee too.

iconv(): Wrong charset, conversion from MACCENTRALEUROPE' toUTF-8//IGNORE//TRANSLIT' is not allowed

[ailixter]

it seems the problem is in StringHelper, that detects proper iconv using dummy conversion src_encoding->dst_encoding (which works fine in the situation), but makes a real convert as src_encoding->dst_encoding//IGNORE//TRANSLIT

[inl-pd-autotest]

This is an issue with iconv.
You probably experience it because you use Alpine Linux (which uses musl).
In that case the solution is in last 2 lines of the Dockerfile from this comment.

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