How to use utf8 encode in PHP

In this article I will explain how the utf8_encode() function can be used in PHP.
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XML Parser function in PHP

  • XML is the eXtensible Markup language.
  • XML is a data format for standardized structured document interchange on the web.
  • XML extension uses the Expat XML parser.
  • Expat XML parser is an event-based parser, it displays an XML document as a series of events.
  • Expat XML parser calls a specified function to handle it, When an event occurs.
  • Expat XML parser is a non-validating parser, and ignores any DTDs linked to a document. However,
  • Expat XML parser will end with an error message, if the document is not well formed
  • Expat XML parser is fast and well suited for web applications.

utf8_encode() function in PHP

  • The utf8_encode() function is used to encode an ISO-8859-1 string data to UTF-8.
  • The utf8_encode() function returns encode version of string.
  • The utf8_encode() function is a standard mechanism used by Unicode for encoding wide character values into a byte stream.
  • The utf8_encode() function is transparent to plain ASCII characters.
  •  The utf8_encode() function is self-synchronized.
  • The utf8_encode() function has been developed to transfer a Unicode character from one computer to another computer
  • The utf8_encode() function returns the encoded string on success.
  • The utf8_encode() function returns FALSE on failure.

UTF-8 encoding

bytes bits representation
1 7 0bbbbbbb
2 11 110bbbbb 10bbbbbb
3 16 1110bbbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb
4 21 11110bbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb 10bbbbbb
  • where each b represents a bit that can be used to store character data.

Syntax

utf8_encode(string)

Parameter

  • string string is required parameter. it is specify for encode to the string.

Output

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