mb_convert_encoding

Description

string mb_convert_encoding ( string str, string to-encoding [, mixed from-encoding])

mb_convert_encoding() converts character encoding of string str from from-encoding to to-encoding.

str : String to be converted.

from-encoding is specified by character code name before conversion. it can be array or string - comma separated enumerated list. If it is not specified, the internal encoding will be used.

Example 1. mb_convert_encoding() example <?php /* Convert internal character encoding to SJIS */ $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "SJIS"); /* Convert EUC-JP to UTF-7 */ $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "UTF-7", "EUC-JP"); /* Auto detect encoding from JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win, then convert str to UCS-2LE */ $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "UCS-2LE", "JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win"); /* "auto" is expanded to "ASCII,JIS,UTF-8,EUC-JP,SJIS" */ $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "EUC-JP", "auto"); ?>

See also mb_detect_order().