iconv()

iconv - Convert string to requested character encoding

Syntax

string iconv (string $in_charset, string $out_charset, string $str)

Arguments

• in_charset - The input charset.
• out_charset - The output charset. If you append the string //TRANSLITto out_charset 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, str is cut from the first illegal character and an E_NOTICE is generated.
• str - The string to be converted.

Description

Performs a character set conversion on the string str from in_charset to out_charset.

Version

PHP 4.0.5, 5

Return value

Returns the converted string or FALSE on failure.