Posted by Philip Ronan on 11/18/05 19:15

"Thomas Podlesak" wrote:

> I need a check, if a file is utf8 encoded. I only found the php-functions
> 'iconv' and 'recode'. But it seems it´s not possible to determine the
> encoding with them. Isn´t there any similar function to the 'file'-command
> on linux for php?

Try this: <http://php.net/mb-detect-encoding> (but make sure you read the
notes at the bottom, especially <http://php.net/mb-detect-encoding#50087>).

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