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A library that implements the php-charset-interface package.

This library implements that database from the iana.

Installation

The installation of this library is made via composer and the autoloading of all classes of this library is made through their autoloader.

• Download composer.phar from their website.
• Then run the following command to install this library as dependency :
• php composer.phar php-extended/php-charset-object ^8

Basic Usage

This library may be used the following way :

• List all character sets

use PhpExtended\Charset\CharacterSet;

foreach(CharacterSet::values() as $characterSet)
{
	// do something here
}

• Search for a specific character set (the values have to be the name or the full name of the character set)

use PhpExtended\Charset\CharacterSetReference;

/* @var $utf8 \PhpExtended\Charset\UTF_8 */
$utf8 = CharacterSetReference::lookup('UTF-8');

You may also search by less common values (The values have to be in the aliases of the character set or in the name or full name).

/* @var $latin1 \PhpExtended\Charset\ISO_8859_1 */
$latin1 = CharacterSetReference::lookupAlias('latin1');

Implemented Charsets Status

License

MIT (See license file).