iconv

(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

iconvConvert a string from one character encoding to another

Description

iconv(string $from_encoding, string $to_encoding, string $string): string|false

Converts string from from_encoding to to_encoding.

Parameters

from_encoding

The current encoding used to interpret string.

to_encoding

The desired encoding of the result.

If the string //TRANSLIT is appended to to_encoding, 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 //IGNORE is appended, characters that cannot be represented in the target charset are silently discarded. Otherwise, E_NOTICE is generated and the function will return false.

Caution

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

string

The string to be converted.

Return Values

Returns the converted string, or false on failure.

Examples

Example #1 iconv() example

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

echo 
'Original : '$textPHP_EOL;
echo 
'TRANSLIT : 'iconv("UTF-8""ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT"$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;

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

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

Notes

Note:

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

See Also

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