?>
Note: This works best on text files. For short strings, stick to mbstring or the library below.
Since automatic detection is never 100% reliable—similar to "decoding an encrypted string without the key"—developers should follow these guidelines: Detect encoding in PHP without multibyte extension?
// Double-check UTF-8 validity if ($detected === 'UTF-8' && !mb_check_encoding($string, 'UTF-8')) return 'Windows-1252'; // common fallback
return 'UTF-8'; // safe fallback
echo $detected; // ISO-8859-1
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?>
Note: This works best on text files. For short strings, stick to mbstring or the library below. detect encoding php
Since automatic detection is never 100% reliable—similar to "decoding an encrypted string without the key"—developers should follow these guidelines: Detect encoding in PHP without multibyte extension? 'UTF-8')) return 'Windows-1252'
// Double-check UTF-8 validity if ($detected === 'UTF-8' && !mb_check_encoding($string, 'UTF-8')) return 'Windows-1252'; // common fallback // common fallback
return 'UTF-8'
return 'UTF-8'; // safe fallback
echo $detected; // ISO-8859-1
