title: How do I convert Hindi Text to UTF-8?
body: <p>I've got an Excel file with text in Hindi which I'm trying to read via PHP but I only get gibberish out of it.</p>
  <p>When I open the .xls File with Numbers, the text looks like this:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/y5FhS.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/y5FhS.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>But when I copy and paste this exact text here it looks like this:</p>
  <pre><code>ß[+kq'kh ge ij fuHkZj djrh gSAÞ
  </code></pre>
  <p>When I read it via PHP I get exactly the same gibberish text.</p>
  <p>Is this an encoding problem in the .xls file and is it somehow possible to extract a UTF-8 encoded version from it?</p>