I used this simple script, flicked from StackOverflow to escape from the function failing:
<?php
function utf8ize($d) {
if (is_array($d)) {
foreach ($d as $k => $v) {
$d[$k] = utf8ize($v);
}
} else if (is_string ($d)) {
return utf8_encode($d);
}
return $d;
}
?>
Cheers,
Praveen Kumar!