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A simple and stupid question that im wondering.
I saw in the PHP Manul that PHP only supports a 256-character set.
But is not specified if is the ASCII code.
From the PHP manual i found This page
That confuse me more.
I wanna know if depends of the operating system.
Native support from PHP are the ASCII code?
One document that stipulate it?
What about This Encode supports?
PHP uses ASCI characters each of a byte containing 8 bit. That’s all.
PHP doesn’t care about the interpretation of each byte, it just reads from a source or writes to a sink.
To which specific code-page these bytes belong doesn’t matter. PHP doesn’t care about it.
If your PHP-Script interacts with a web-server, each page should contain a hint, which defines the correct interpreation in the
<head>of a<html>page:The above declaration defines, that the characters of the HTML-page should be interpreted as ISO Latin-1 codes. Additionally, if the page sends back characters to the PHP-script, the browser sends them as ISO Latin-1 encoded ASCII characters.
If you forget to define a Content-Type, it’s up to the browser to use a code page / text encoding.
That said, you are free to use any ASCII text-encoding that best fits your needs. But never forget to set a Content-Type in a web-page.
Extensions like iconv help out, in case you need to process e.g. UTF-8 characters.