Php/docs/function.iconv
iconv
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.5, PHP 5, PHP 7)
iconv — Convert string to requested character encoding
Description
iconv
( string $from_encoding
, string $to_encoding
, string $string
) : string|false
Performs a character set conversion on the string
string
from from_encoding
to to_encoding
.
Parameters
from_encoding
The input charset.
to_encoding
The output charset.
If you append the string
//TRANSLIT
toto_encoding
transliteration is activated. This means that when a character can't be represented in the target charset, it can be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters. If you append the string//IGNORE
, characters that cannot be represented in the target charset are silently discarded. Otherwise,E_NOTICE
is generated and the function will returnFALSE
.Caution
If and how
//TRANSLIT
works exactly depends on the system's iconv() implementation (cf.ICONV_IMPL
). Some implementations are known to ignore//TRANSLIT
, so the conversion is likely to fail for characters which are illegal for theto_encoding
.string
The string to be converted.
Return Values
Returns the converted string or FALSE
on failure.
Examples
Example #1 iconv() example
<?php$text = "This is the Euro symbol '€'.";echo 'Original : ', $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;?>
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