Multibyte String Functions

References

Multibyte character encoding schemes and their related issues are fairly complicated, and are beyond the scope of this documentation. Please refer to the following URLs and other resources for further information regarding these topics.

Unicode materials

» http://www.unicode.org/
Japanese/Korean/Chinese character information

» http://examples.oreilly.com/cjkvinfo/doc/cjk.inf

mb_check_encoding — Check if the string is valid for the specified encoding
mb_convert_case — Perform case folding on a string
mb_convert_encoding — Convert character encoding
mb_convert_kana — Convert "kana" one from another ("zen-kaku", "han-kaku" and more)
mb_convert_variables — Convert character code in variable(s)
mb_decode_mimeheader — Decode string in MIME header field
mb_decode_numericentity — Decode HTML numeric string reference to character
mb_detect_encoding — Detect character encoding
mb_detect_order — Set/Get character encoding detection order
mb_encode_mimeheader — Encode string for MIME header
mb_encode_numericentity — Encode character to HTML numeric string reference
mb_ereg_match — Regular expression match for multibyte string
mb_ereg_replace — Replace regular expression with multibyte support
mb_ereg_search_getpos — Returns start point for next regular expression match
mb_ereg_search_getregs — Retrieve the result from the last multibyte regular expression match
mb_ereg_search_init — Setup string and regular expression for a multibyte regular expression match
mb_ereg_search_pos — Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression for a predefined multibyte string
mb_ereg_search_regs — Returns the matched part of a multibyte regular expression
mb_ereg_search_setpos — Set start point of next regular expression match
mb_ereg_search — Multibyte regular expression match for predefined multibyte string
mb_ereg — Regular expression match with multibyte support
mb_eregi_replace — Replace regular expression with multibyte support ignoring case
mb_eregi — Regular expression match ignoring case with multibyte support
mb_get_info — Get internal settings of mbstring
mb_http_input — Detect HTTP input character encoding
mb_http_output — Set/Get HTTP output character encoding
mb_internal_encoding — Set/Get internal character encoding
mb_language — Set/Get current language
mb_list_encodings — Returns an array of all supported encodings
mb_output_handler — Callback function converts character encoding in output buffer
mb_parse_str — Parse GET/POST/COOKIE data and set global variable
mb_preferred_mime_name — Get MIME charset string
mb_regex_encoding — Returns current encoding for multibyte regex as string
mb_regex_set_options — Set/Get the default options for mbregex functions
mb_send_mail — Send encoded mail
mb_split — Split multibyte string using regular expression
mb_strcut — Get part of string
mb_strimwidth — Get truncated string with specified width
mb_stripos — Finds position of first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
mb_stristr — Finds first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
mb_strlen — Get string length
mb_strpos — Find position of first occurrence of string in a string
mb_strrchr — Finds the last occurrence of a character in a string within another
mb_strrichr — Finds the last occurrence of a character in a string within another, case insensitive
mb_strripos — Finds position of last occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
mb_strrpos — Find position of last occurrence of a string in a string
mb_strstr — Finds first occurrence of a string within another
mb_strtolower — Make a string lowercase
mb_strtoupper — Make a string uppercase
mb_strwidth — Return width of string
mb_substitute_character — Set/Get substitution character
mb_substr_count — Count the number of substring occurrences
mb_substr — Get part of string

Multibyte String Functions

References

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