<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Supported Character Encodings</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="mbstring.http.html">HTTP Input and Output</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mbstring.overload.html">Function Overloading Feature</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.mbstring.html">Multibyte String</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="mbstring.supported-encodings" class="chapter"> <h1>Supported Character Encodings</h1> <p class="simpara"> Currently the following character encodings are supported by the <em>mbstring</em> module. Any of those Character encodings can be specified in the <em>encoding</em> parameter of <em>mbstring</em> functions. </p> <p class="para"> The following character encodings are supported in this PHP extension: </p> <ul class="itemizedlist"> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UCS-4*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UCS-4BE</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UCS-4LE*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UCS-2</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UCS-2BE</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UCS-2LE</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-32*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-32BE*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-32LE*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-16*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-16BE*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-16LE*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-7</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF7-IMAP</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-8*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ASCII*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">EUC-JP*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">SJIS*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">eucJP-win*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">SJIS-win*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-2022-JP</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-2022-JP-MS</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP932</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP51932</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">SJIS-mac** (alias: MacJapanese)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">SJIS-Mobile#DOCOMO** (alias: SJIS-DOCOMO)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">SJIS-Mobile#KDDI** (alias: SJIS-KDDI)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">SJIS-Mobile#SOFTBANK** (alias: SJIS-SOFTBANK)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-8-Mobile#DOCOMO** (alias: UTF-8-DOCOMO)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-8-Mobile#KDDI-A**</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-8-Mobile#KDDI-B** (alias: UTF-8-KDDI)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UTF-8-Mobile#SOFTBANK** (alias: UTF-8-SOFTBANK)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-2022-JP-MOBILE#KDDI** (alias: ISO-2022-JP-KDDI)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">JIS</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">JIS-ms</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP50220</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP50220raw</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP50221</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP50222</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-1*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-2*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-3*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-4*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-5*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-6*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-7*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-8*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-9*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-10*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-13*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-14*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-8859-15*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">byte2be</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">byte2le</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">byte4be</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">byte4le</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">BASE64</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">HTML-ENTITIES</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">7bit</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">8bit</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">EUC-CN*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP936</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">GB18030**</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">HZ</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">EUC-TW*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP950</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">BIG-5*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">EUC-KR*</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">UHC (CP949)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">ISO-2022-KR</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">Windows-1251 (CP1251)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">Windows-1252 (CP1252)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">CP866 (IBM866)</span></li> <li class="listitem"><span class="simpara">KOI8-R*</span></li> </ul> <p class="para"> * denotes encodings usable also in regular expressions. </p> <p class="para"> ** denotes encodings available since PHP 5.4.0. </p> <p class="para"> Any <var class="filename">php.ini</var> entry which accepts an encoding name can also use the values "<em>auto</em>" and "<em>pass</em>". <em>mbstring</em> functions which accept an encoding name can also use the value "<em>auto</em>". </p> <p class="para"> If "<em>pass</em>" is set, no character encoding conversion is performed. </p> <p class="para"> If "<em>auto</em>" is set, it is expanded to the list of encodings defined per the <a href="mbstring.configuration.html" class="link">NLS</a>. For instance, if the NLS is set to <em>Japanese</em>, the value is assumed to be "<em>ASCII,JIS,UTF-8,EUC-JP,SJIS</em>". </p> <p class="para"> See also <span class="function"><a href="function.mb-detect-order.html" class="function">mb_detect_order()</a></span> </p> </div> <hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="mbstring.http.html">HTTP Input and Output</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="mbstring.overload.html">Function Overloading Feature</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.mbstring.html">Multibyte String</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
