PHP, Date-Time and Calendar functions


<?php



str|false iconv ( str $from_encoding , 

                         str $to_encoding , 

                         str $string )





where,



$from_encoding = The input charset



 $to_encoding = The output charset



$string = The STRING to be converted



?>

$from_encoding

The input charset.

$to_encoding

The output charset.

$string

The STRING to be converted.

Transliteration is actvated if appended by the string //TRANSLIT to $to_encoding.

This means that when a character can't be represented in the target charset, it can be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters.

If the string //IGNORE characters that cannot be represented in the target charset are silently discarded.

Otherwise, E_NOTICE is generated and the function will return FALSE.

Some implementations are known to ignore //TRANSLIT , so the conversion is likely to fail for characters which are illegal for the $to_encoding.

EXERCISE


<?php



$str01 = 'Dies ist ein Beispiel für die Anwendung der iconv-Funktion in deutscher Sprache.';



$in_chrs01 = 'UTF-8';



$out_chrs01 = 'Windows-1255//TRANSLIT';



$strr01 = iconv($in_chrs01, $out_chrs01, $str01);



echo $strr01 . '<br><br>';



?>

EXERCISE


<?php



setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "de", "de-de", "de_DE");



$str02 = 'Dies ist ein Beispiel für die Anwendung der iconv-Funktion in deutscher Sprache.';



$in_chrs02 = 'Windows-1255';



$out_chrs02 = 'UTF-8';



$strr02 = iconv($in_chrs02, $out_chrs02, $str02);



echo $strr02 . '<br><br>';



?>