mb_ord
Get Unicode code point of character
Description
intfalse mb_ord(string $string, stringnull $encoding = null)
This function complements mb_chr.
Parameters
-
string
-
A string
-
encoding
-
The encoding
parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, the internal character
encoding value will be used.
Return Values
The Unicode code point for the first character of string or false on failure.
Examples
Example #1 A basic mb_ord example
<?php
var_dump(mb_ord("A", "UTF-8"));
var_dump(mb_ord("🐘", "UTF-8"));
var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "ISO-8859-1"));
var_dump(mb_ord("\x80", "Windows-1252"));
?>
The above example will output:
int(65)
int(128024)
int(128)
int(8364)
See Also
- mb_internal_encoding
- mb_chr
- IntlChar::ord
- ord