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  <refentry id="function.mb-detect-encoding">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>mb_detect_encoding</refname>
    <refpurpose>Detect character encoding</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>string</type><methodname>mb_detect_encoding</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>str</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>mixed</type><parameter>encoding-list</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     <function>mb_detect_encoding</function> detects character
     encoding in string <parameter>str</parameter>. It returns
     detected character encoding.
    </para>
    <para>
     <parameter>encoding-list</parameter> is list of character
     encoding. Encoding order may be specified by array or comma
     separated list string.
    </para>
    <para>
     If <parameter>encoding_list</parameter> is omitted,
     detect_order is used.
    </para>
    <para>
     <example>
      <title><function>mb_detect_encoding</function> example</title>
      <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
/* Detect character encoding with current detect_order */
echo mb_detect_encoding($str);

/* "auto" is expanded to "ASCII,JIS,UTF-8,EUC-JP,SJIS" */
echo mb_detect_encoding($str, "auto");

/* Specify encoding_list character encoding by comma separated list */
echo mb_detect_encoding($str, "JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win");

/* Use array to specify encoding_list  */
$ary[] = "ASCII";
$ary[] = "JIS";
$ary[] = "EUC-JP";
echo mb_detect_encoding($str, $ary);
]]>
      </programlisting>
     </example>
    </para>
    <para>
     See also: <function>mb_detect_order</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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