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<refentry xml:id="function.sqlite-libencoding" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>sqlite_libencoding</refname>
  <refpurpose>Returns the encoding of the linked SQLite library</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>

 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>string</type><methodname>sqlite_libencoding</methodname>
   <void/>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   The SQLite library may be compiled in either <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal>
   or <literal>UTF-8</literal> compatible modes. This function allows you to
   determine which encoding scheme is used by your version of the library.
  </para>
  <warning>
   <para>
    The default PHP distribution builds <filename>libsqlite</filename> in
    <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal> encoding
    mode.  However, this is a misnomer; rather than handling
    <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal>, it operates according to your current
    locale settings for string comparisons and sort ordering. So, rather
    than <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal>, you should think of it as being
    '<literal>8-bit</literal>' instead.
   </para>
  </warning>
  <para>
   When compiled with <literal>UTF-8</literal> support, sqlite handles encoding and decoding
   of <literal>UTF-8</literal> multi-byte character sequences, but does not yet do a complete
   job when working with the data (no normalization is performed for
   example), and some comparison operations may still not be carried out
   correctly.
  </para>
  <warning>
   <para>
    It is not recommended that you use PHP in a web-server configuration
    with a version of the SQLite library compiled with <literal>UTF-8</literal> support, since
    <filename>libsqlite</filename> will abort the process if it detects a problem with the
    <literal>UTF-8</literal> encoding.
   </para>
  </warning>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns the library encoding.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member><function>sqlite_lib_version</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>
</refentry>

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