php man page for iconv

ICONV(3)								 1								  ICONV(3)

iconv - Convert string to requested character encoding

SYNOPSIS
       string iconv (string  $in_charset, string  $out_charset, string	$str)

DESCRIPTION
	Performs a character set conversion on the string $str from $in_charset to $out_charset.

PARAMETERS
	      o $in_charset
		- The input charset.

	      o $out_charset
		-  The	output	charset.  If you append the string //TRANSLIT to $out_charset transliteration is activated. 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  you append the string //IGNORE, characters that cannot be represented in the target charset are silently discarded. Otherwise,
		$str is cut from the first illegal character and an E_NOTICE is generated.

	      o $str
		- The string to be converted.

RETURN VALUES
	Returns the converted string or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES
       Example #1

	      iconv(3) example

	      <?php
	      $text = "This is the Euro symbol 'EUR'.";

	      echo 'Original : ', $text, PHP_EOL;
	      echo 'TRANSLIT : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $text), PHP_EOL;
	      echo 'IGNORE   : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//IGNORE", $text), PHP_EOL;
	      echo 'Plain    : ', iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $text), PHP_EOL;

	      ?>

	      The above example will output something similar to:

	      Original : This is the Euro symbol 'EUR'.
	      TRANSLIT : This is the Euro symbol 'EUR'.
	      IGNORE   : This is the Euro symbol ''.
	      Plain    :
	      Notice: iconv(): Detected an illegal character in input string in .iconv-example.php on line 7
	      This is the Euro symbol '

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