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+ Following character sets are supported in PHP 4.3.0 and later.
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+ Supported charsets
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+ Charset
+ Description
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+ ISO-8859-1
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+ Western European, Latin-1
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+ ISO-8859-15
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+ Western European, Latin-9. Adds the Euro sign, French and Finish
+ letters missing in Latin-1(ISO-8859-1).
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+ UTF-8
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+ ASCII compatible multi-byte 8-bit Unicode.
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+ cp1252
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+ Windows specific charset for Western European.
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+ BIG5
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+ Traditional Chinese, mainly used in Taiwan.
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+ GB2312
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+ Simplified Chinese, national standard character set.
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+ BIG5-HKSCS
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+ Big5 with Hong Kong extensions, Traditional Chinese.
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+ Shift_JIS
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+ Japanese
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+ EUCJP
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+ Japanese
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+ Any other character sets are not recognized and ISO-8859-1 will be used
+ instead.
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