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    mb_detect_order

    (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

    mb_detect_order — Set/Get character encoding detection order

    Description

    mb_detect_order(array|string|null $encoding = null): array|bool

    Sets the automatic character encoding detection order to encoding.

    Parameters

    encoding

    encoding is an array or comma separated list of character encoding. See supported encodings.

    If encoding is omitted or null, it returns the current character encoding detection order as array.

    This setting affects mb_detect_encoding() and mb_send_mail().

    mbstring currently implements the following encoding detection filters. If there is an invalid byte sequence for the following encodings, encoding detection will fail.

    UTF-8, UTF-7, ASCII, EUC-JP,SJIS, eucJP-win, SJIS-win, JIS, ISO-2022-JP

    For ISO-8859-*, mbstring always detects as ISO-8859-*.

    For UTF-16, UTF-32, UCS2 and UCS4, encoding detection will fail always.

    Return Values

    When setting the encoding detection order, true is returned on success or false on failure.

    When getting the encoding detection order, an ordered array of the encodings is returned.

    Changelog

    Version Description
    8.0.0 encoding is nullable now.

    Examples

    Example #1 mb_detect_order() examples

    <?php
    /* Set detection order by enumerated list */
    mb_detect_order("eucjp-win,sjis-win,UTF-8");

    /* Set detection order by array */
    $ary[] = "ASCII";
    $ary[] = "JIS";
    $ary[] = "EUC-JP";
    mb_detect_order($ary);

    /* Display current detection order */
    echo implode(", ", mb_detect_order());
    ?>

    Example #2 Example showing useless detect orders

    ; Always detect as ISO-8859-1
detect_order = ISO-8859-1, UTF-8

; Always detect as UTF-8, since ASCII/UTF-7 values are 
; valid for UTF-8
detect_order = UTF-8, ASCII, UTF-7

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    Anonymous
    9 months ago
    Perhaps obvious to most everyone, but the
    default filter list was shorter than I expected:
    ['ASCII','UTF-8'], in that order.

    c. 2024, 60% of websites globally declared charset 'UTF-8'
    So if you're experimenting with multibyte encodings other than UTF-8, you have to specify your detect_order, choosing from the list of implemented filters.
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