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  <refentry id="function.mb-convert-encoding">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>mb_convert_encoding</refname>
    <refpurpose>Convert character encoding</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>string</type><methodname>mb_convert_encoding</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>str</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>to-encoding</parameter></methodparam>
      <methodparam choice="opt"><type>mixed</type><parameter>from-encoding</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     <function>mb_convert_encoding</function> converts 
     character encoding of string <parameter>str</parameter> from
     <parameter>from-encoding</parameter> to
     <parameter>to-encoding</parameter>.
    </para>
    <para>
     <parameter>str</parameter> : String to be converted.
    </para>
    <para>
     <parameter>from-encoding</parameter> is specified by character
     code name before conversion. it can be array or string - comma
     separated  enumerated list. If it is not specified, the internal
     encoding will be used.
    </para>
    <para>
     <example>
      <title><function>mb_convert_encoding</function> example</title>
      <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
/* Convert internal character encoding to SJIS */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "SJIS");

/* Convert EUC-JP to UTF-7 */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "UTF-7", "EUC-JP");

/* Auto detect encoding from JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win, then convert str to UCS-2LE */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "UCS-2LE", "JIS, eucjp-win, sjis-win");

/* "auto" is expanded to "ASCII,JIS,UTF-8,EUC-JP,SJIS" */
$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "EUC-JP", "auto");
?>
]]>
      </programlisting>
     </example>
    </para>
    <para>
     See also <function>mb_detect_order</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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