Multibyte String

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installing/Configuring
  • Installation
  • Runtime Configuration
• Predefined Constants
• Summaries of supported encodings
• Basics of Japanese multi-byte encodings
• HTTP Input and Output
• Supported Character Encodings
• Function Overloading Feature
• PHP Character Encoding Requirements
• Multibyte String Functions
  • mb_check_encoding — Check if strings are valid for the specified encoding
  • mb_chr — Return character by Unicode code point value
  • mb_convert_case — Perform case folding on a string
  • mb_convert_encoding — Convert a string from one character encoding to another
  • mb_convert_kana — Convert "kana" one from another ("zen-kaku", "han-kaku" and more)
  • mb_convert_variables — Convert character code in variable(s)
  • mb_decode_mimeheader — Decode string in MIME header field
  • mb_decode_numericentity — Decode HTML numeric string reference to character
  • mb_detect_encoding — Detect character encoding
  • mb_detect_order — Set/Get character encoding detection order
  • mb_encode_mimeheader — Encode string for MIME header
  • mb_encode_numericentity — Encode character to HTML numeric string reference
  • mb_encoding_aliases — Get aliases of a known encoding type
  • mb_ereg — Regular expression match with multibyte support
  • mb_ereg_match — Regular expression match for multibyte string
  • mb_ereg_replace — Replace regular expression with multibyte support
  • mb_ereg_replace_callback — Perform a regular expression search and replace with multibyte support using a callback
  • mb_ereg_search — Multibyte regular expression match for predefined multibyte string
  • mb_ereg_search_getpos — Returns start point for next regular expression match
  • mb_ereg_search_getregs — Retrieve the result from the last multibyte regular expression match
  • mb_ereg_search_init — Setup string and regular expression for a multibyte regular expression match
  • mb_ereg_search_pos — Returns position and length of a matched part of the multibyte regular expression for a predefined multibyte string
  • mb_ereg_search_regs — Returns the matched part of a multibyte regular expression
  • mb_ereg_search_setpos — Set start point of next regular expression match
  • mb_eregi — Regular expression match ignoring case with multibyte support
  • mb_eregi_replace — Replace regular expression with multibyte support ignoring case
  • mb_get_info — Get internal settings of mbstring
  • mb_http_input — Detect HTTP input character encoding
  • mb_http_output — Set/Get HTTP output character encoding
  • mb_internal_encoding — Set/Get internal character encoding
  • mb_language — Set/Get current language
  • mb_lcfirst — Make a string's first character lowercase
  • mb_list_encodings — Returns an array of all supported encodings
  • mb_ltrim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning of a string
  • mb_ord — Get Unicode code point of character
  • mb_output_handler — Callback function converts character encoding in output buffer
  • mb_parse_str — Parse GET/POST/COOKIE data and set global variable
  • mb_preferred_mime_name — Get MIME charset string
  • mb_regex_encoding — Set/Get character encoding for multibyte regex
  • mb_regex_set_options — Set/Get the default options for mbregex functions
  • mb_rtrim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the end of a string
  • mb_scrub — Replace ill-formed byte sequences with the substitute character
  • mb_send_mail — Send encoded mail
  • mb_split — Split multibyte string using regular expression
  • mb_str_pad — Pad a multibyte string to a certain length with another multibyte string
  • mb_str_split — Given a multibyte string, return an array of its characters
  • mb_strcut — Get part of string
  • mb_strimwidth — Get truncated string with specified width
  • mb_stripos — Finds position of first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
  • mb_stristr — Finds first occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
  • mb_strlen — Get string length
  • mb_strpos — Find position of first occurrence of string in a string
  • mb_strrchr — Finds the last occurrence of a character in a string within another
  • mb_strrichr — Finds the last occurrence of a character in a string within another, case insensitive
  • mb_strripos — Finds position of last occurrence of a string within another, case insensitive
  • mb_strrpos — Find position of last occurrence of a string in a string
  • mb_strstr — Finds first occurrence of a string within another
  • mb_strtolower — Make a string lowercase
  • mb_strtoupper — Make a string uppercase
  • mb_strwidth — Return width of string
  • mb_substitute_character — Set/Get substitution character
  • mb_substr — Get part of string
  • mb_substr_count — Count the number of substring occurrences
  • mb_trim — Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string
  • mb_ucfirst — Make a string's first character uppercase