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faressoft
faressoft

Reputation: 19651

PHP: What is that character encoding of this string?

In PHP, i have the following string: =CA=CC=D1=C8=C9

what is its character encoding?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 311

Answers (3)

John Machin
John Machin

Reputation: 82924

The answer and comments that you got assumed that you knew already that the transportation encoding was "quoted-printable" ... decoding using that, "=CA=CC=D1=C8=C9" becomes "\xCA\xCC\xD1\xC8\xC9" (which is NOT UTF-8, as you asked for in a comment) ... and they concentrated on what encoding might reasonably be used to produce Unicode out of that. To arrive at UTF-8, you need two more steps: decode "\xCA\xCC\xD1\xC8\xC9" into Unicode (using an encoding appropriate to Arabic text) and then encode into UTF-8.

Upvotes: 1

faressoft
faressoft

Reputation: 19651

It is called quoted printable

I can deceode it using :

quoted_printable_decode($string);

Upvotes: 0

dan04
dan04

Reputation: 90995

It does not make sense to have a string without knowing what encoding it uses.

Those 5 bytes mean different things in different encodings.

  • In UTF-8, it's invalid. All lead bytes and no trail bytes.
  • In ISO-8859-1 and windows-1252, it's the string ÊÌÑÈÉ.
  • According to chardet, it's in KOI8-R, and decodes to йляхи

Upvotes: 6

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