Set/Get character encoding detection order mb_detect_encoding mb_encode_mimeheader Multibyte String Functions PHP Manual mb_detect_order (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)mb_detect_order — Set/Get character encoding detection order Description mixed mb_detect_order ([ mixed $encoding_list ] ) Sets the automatic character encoding detection order to encoding_list . Parameters encoding_list encoding_list is an array or comma separated list of character encoding. ("auto" is expanded to "ASCII, JIS, UTF-8, EUC-JP, SJIS") If encoding_list is omitted, it returns the current character encoding detection order as array. This setting affects mb_detect_encoding() and mb_send_mail(). mbstring currently implements the following encoding detection filters. If there is an invalid byte sequence for the following encodings, encoding detection will fail. UTF-8, UTF-7, ASCII, EUC-JP,SJIS, eucJP-win, SJIS-win, JIS, ISO-2022-JP For ISO-8859-*, mbstring always detects as ISO-8859-*. For UTF-16, UTF-32, UCS2 and UCS4, encoding detection will fail always. Example #1 Useless detect order example ; Always detect as ISO-8859-1 detect_order = ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 ; Always detect as UTF-8, since ASCII/UTF-7 values are ; valid for UTF-8 detect_order = UTF-8, ASCII, UTF-7 Return Values Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. Examples Example #2 mb_detect_order() examples <?php/* Set detection order by enumerated list */mb_detect_order("eucjp-win,sjis-win,UTF-8");/* Set detection order by array */$ary[] = "ASCII";$ary[] = "JIS";$ary[] = "EUC-JP";mb_detect_order($ary);/* Display current detection order */echo implode(", ", mb_detect_order());?> See Also mb_internal_encoding() mb_http_input() mb_http_output() mb_send_mail() mb_detect_encoding mb_encode_mimeheader Multibyte String Functions PHP Manual