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(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)
mb_detect_encoding — Detect character encoding
Detects character encoding in string str .
The string being detected.
encoding_list is list of character encoding. Encoding order may be specified by array or comma separated list string.
If encoding_list is omitted, detect_order is used.
strict specifies whether to use the strict encoding detection or not. Default is FALSE.
The detected character encoding.
Example #1 mb_detect_encoding() example
<?php /* Detect character encoding with current detect_order */ echo mb_detect_encoding($str); /* "auto" is expanded to "ASCII,JIS,UTF-8,EUC-JP,SJIS" */ echo mb_detect_encoding($str, "auto"); /* Specify encoding_list character encoding by comma separated list */ echo mb_detect_encoding($str, "JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win"); /* Use array to specify encoding_list */ $ary[] = "ASCII"; $ary[] = "JIS"; $ary[] = "EUC-JP"; echo mb_detect_encoding($str, $ary); ?>