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iconv

Convert a string from one character encoding to another

 **iconv** string $from_encoding string $to_encoding string $string

Converts from to . string``from_encoding``to_encoding

from_encoding The current encoding used to interpret . string

to_encodingThe desired encoding of the result.

   If the string  is appended to
   , then transliteration is activated. This
   means that when a character can't be represented in the target charset,
   it may be approximated through one or several similarly looking
   characters. If the string  is appended,
   characters that cannot be represented in the target charset are silently
   discarded. Otherwise,  is generated and the function
   will return false.
  `//TRANSLIT``to_encoding``//IGNORE``E_NOTICE`

Let op: > If and how works exactly depends on the system's iconv() implementation (cf. ). Some implementations are known to ignore , so the conversion is likely to fail for characters which are illegal for the . //TRANSLIT``ICONV_IMPL``//TRANSLIT``to_encoding

stringThe string to be converted.

Returns the converted string,return.falseforfailure.

Voorbeeld: example

<?php
$text = "This is the Euro symbol '€'.";

echo 'Original : ', $text, PHP_EOL;
echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $text), PHP_EOL;
echo 'IGNORE   : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $text), PHP_EOL;
echo 'Plain    : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $text), PHP_EOL;

?>

Original : This is the Euro symbol '€'.
TRANSLIT : This is the Euro symbol 'EUR'.
IGNORE   : This is the Euro symbol ''.
Plain    :
Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in .\iconv-example.php on line 7

Opmerking: > The character encodings and options available depend on the installed implementation of iconv. If the argument to or is not supported on the current system, false will be returned. from_encoding``to_encoding

mb_convert_encoding``UConverter::transcode

Vorige ← iconv_substr Volgende ob_iconv_handler →

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