php man page for sqlite_libencoding

SQLITE_LIBENCODING(3)													     SQLITE_LIBENCODING(3)

sqlite_libencoding - Returns the encoding of the linked SQLite library

SYNOPSIS
       string sqlite_libencoding (void	)

DESCRIPTION
	The  SQLite  library  may be compiled in either ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 compatible modes. This function allows you to determine which encoding
       scheme is used by your version of the library.

       Warning

	       The default PHP distribution builds libsqlite in ISO-8859-1 encoding mode. However,  this  is  a  misnomer;  rather  than  handling
	      ISO-8859-1,  it  operates  according  to	your  current  locale  settings  for string comparisons and sort ordering. So, rather than
	      ISO-8859-1, you should think of it as being ' 8-bit' instead.

	When compiled with UTF-8 support, sqlite handles encoding and decoding of UTF-8 multi-byte character sequences, but does not yet do a com-
       plete  job  when working with the data (no normalization is performed for example), and some comparison operations may still not be carried
       out correctly.

       Warning

	       It is not recommended that you use PHP in a web-server configuration with a version of the SQLite library compiled with UTF-8  sup-
	      port, since libsqlite will abort the process if it detects a problem with the UTF-8 encoding.

RETURN VALUES
	Returns the library encoding.

SEE ALSO
       sqlite_lib_version(3).

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