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MultiByte String in PHP

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php in_array multibyte equivalent

Is in_array() function in php multibyte safe? If not ,how can i make it so? The php.net multibyte reference lists mb_stristr() but it accepts a string , not an array as haystack . My haystack = array of strings and needle = string.
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php mb_convert_case() keep words that are in uppercase

Assuming I have a string "HET1200 text string" and I need it to change to "HET1200 Text String". Encoding would be UTF-8. How can I do that? Currently, I use mb_convert_case($string, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8"); but that changes "HET1200" to "Het1200. I…
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PHP/MySQL Encoding

I have a website, with arabic content which has been migrated from a different server. On the old server, everything was displaying correctly, supposedly everything was encoded with UTF-8. On the current server, the data started displaying…
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Table already utf8 charset, still getting question marks in some characters

I'm trying to change my encoding to utf-8, below is what I have so far. Table Charset mbstring installed extension=php_mbstring.dll mbstring configured in php.ini mbstring.language = Neutral mbstring.internal_encoding =…
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When do I need to enable mbstring in PHP?

mbstring extension provides enhanced support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Russian in addition to Japanese. I tried displaying a Japanese character (which I copied from www.google.co.jp) on my PHP page and it displayed…
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Ensure that PHP is compiled with php_mbstring.dll enabled

I'm currently experiencing error on my application using php. here is the error message Error - mPDF requires mb_string functions. Ensure that PHP is compiled with php_mbstring.dll enabled. I'm using third party library to generate pdf file (MPDF).…
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How to check if a string can safely be converted in another character set without loss?

Is it possible, prior to converting a string from a charset to another, to know whether this conversion will be lossless? If I try to convert an UTF-8 string to latin1, for example, the chars that can't be converted are replaced by ?. Checking for ?…
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Where can I get a complete list of all multi-byte functions for PHP?

Where can I get a complete list of all multi-byte functions for PHP? I need to go through my application and switch the non MB string functions to the new mb functions.
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Include my own mb_string functions or use PHP's defaults?

For a public app - do you think it's a good idea to assume the mb_string extension is enabled on all servers (or almost all, like 95%)? Are there hosts out there that disable this extension?
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mbstring Ubuntu 14.04 dependency package conflict

I am trying to install PHP mbstring module in my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. I've used "sudo apt-get -f install php7.0-mbstring" to install the module. I've added necessary source list in "/etc/apt/sources.list". When I run the above mbstring installation…
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Compile mbstring statically into PHP

Is there a way to compile the PHP extension mbstring statically into PHP (PHP >= 7)? Something like ./configure [...] --enable-mbstring=static [...] && make?
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Missing mbstring PHP extension when installing phpMyAdmin on Mac

PhpMyAdmin install errors Having some issues with installing phpMyAdmin. I would like to resolve the following issue, but don't have a clue where to start (except maybe php.ini?). Here's the error message. The mbstring PHP extension was not found…
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Why do mbstring functions incorrectly identify ISO-8859 strings?

Despite listing each ISO-8859 character set as an individual encoding, the mbstring functions treat every ISO-8859 character set interchangeably. To drive the point home: $strings = [ 'English' => 'Ea vim decore sapientem repudiandae. Sea cu…
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Does mbstring normalize utf-8 strings?

I noticed that mb_convert_encoding always returns valid utf-8, which is great for cleaning up user input, but I wonder whether it will return a normalized form of utf-8 or whether I would have to do that manually after with the \Normalizer class?
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Cannot install mbstring php conflict

I am trying to install php-mbstring with php 5.6 and I get this error: Error: php56w-common conflicts with php-common-5.4.45-3.el6.remi.x86_64 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles…
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