mb_list_encodings

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

mb_list_encodingsReturns an array of all supported encodings

Description

mb_list_encodings(): array

Returns an array containing all supported encodings.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns a numerically indexed array.

Errors/Exceptions

This function does not emit any errors.

Examples

Example #1 mb_list_encodings() example

<?php

print_r
(mb_list_encodings());

?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [0] => pass
    [1] => auto
    [2] => wchar
    [3] => byte2be
    [4] => byte2le
    [5] => byte4be
    [6] => byte4le
    [7] => BASE64
    [8] => UUENCODE
    [9] => HTML-ENTITIES
    [10] => Quoted-Printable
    [11] => 7bit
    [12] => 8bit
    [13] => UCS-4
    [14] => UCS-4BE
    [15] => UCS-4LE
    [16] => UCS-2
    [17] => UCS-2BE
    [18] => UCS-2LE
    [19] => UTF-32
    [20] => UTF-32BE
    [21] => UTF-32LE
    [22] => UTF-16
    [23] => UTF-16BE
    [24] => UTF-16LE
    [25] => UTF-8
    [26] => UTF-7
    [27] => UTF7-IMAP
    [28] => ASCII
    [29] => EUC-JP
    [30] => SJIS
    [31] => eucJP-win
    [32] => SJIS-win
    [33] => JIS
    [34] => ISO-2022-JP
    [35] => Windows-1252
    [36] => ISO-8859-1
    [37] => ISO-8859-2
    [38] => ISO-8859-3
    [39] => ISO-8859-4
    [40] => ISO-8859-5
    [41] => ISO-8859-6
    [42] => ISO-8859-7
    [43] => ISO-8859-8
    [44] => ISO-8859-9
    [45] => ISO-8859-10
    [46] => ISO-8859-13
    [47] => ISO-8859-14
    [48] => ISO-8859-15
    [49] => EUC-CN
    [50] => CP936
    [51] => HZ
    [52] => EUC-TW
    [53] => BIG-5
    [54] => EUC-KR
    [55] => UHC
    [56] => ISO-2022-KR
    [57] => Windows-1251
    [58] => CP866
    [59] => KOI8-R
)

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User Contributed Notes 4 notes

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bronze1man at gmail dot com
10 years ago
Note: Not all accept encoding name string are here.
mb_convert_encoding() accept "gbk", but it is not here.
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raat1979 at gmail dot com
6 years ago
this function lists the most common names under which encodings are named,

If the one you are looking for is not in the list but does work it may be known as an alias of one of the returned encoding names

mb_encoding_aliases returns the aliases of the encoding ,
unfortunately there is no reverse way to do this (eg. no function will return 'CP936' for 'GBK')

you could list all encoding names and their known aliases by doing something like
<?php
print_r
(
array_unique(
array_merge(
$enc = mb_list_encodings(),
call_user_func_array(
'array_merge',
array_map(
"mb_encoding_aliases",
$enc
)
)
)
)
);
?>
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2
whittaker007 at gmail dot com
3 years ago
Note that the 'auto' option no longer appears in PHP 7.4+
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0
Jonadabe
8 years ago
print "<pre>";
print_r(mb_list_encodings());

and got this on xampp in win8.1.

Array
(
[0] => pass
[1] => auto
[2] => wchar
[3] => byte2be
[4] => byte2le
[5] => byte4be
[6] => byte4le
[7] => BASE64
[8] => UUENCODE
[9] => HTML-ENTITIES
[10] => Quoted-Printable
[11] => 7bit
[12] => 8bit
[13] => UCS-4
[14] => UCS-4BE
[15] => UCS-4LE
[16] => UCS-2
[17] => UCS-2BE
[18] => UCS-2LE
[19] => UTF-32
[20] => UTF-32BE
[21] => UTF-32LE
[22] => UTF-16
[23] => UTF-16BE
[24] => UTF-16LE
[25] => UTF-8
[26] => UTF-7
[27] => UTF7-IMAP
[28] => ASCII
[29] => EUC-JP
[30] => SJIS
[31] => eucJP-win
[32] => EUC-JP-2004
[33] => SJIS-win
[34] => SJIS-Mobile#DOCOMO
[35] => SJIS-Mobile#KDDI
[36] => SJIS-Mobile#SOFTBANK
[37] => SJIS-mac
[38] => SJIS-2004
[39] => UTF-8-Mobile#DOCOMO
[40] => UTF-8-Mobile#KDDI-A
[41] => UTF-8-Mobile#KDDI-B
[42] => UTF-8-Mobile#SOFTBANK
[43] => CP932
[44] => CP51932
[45] => JIS
[46] => ISO-2022-JP
[47] => ISO-2022-JP-MS
[48] => GB18030
[49] => Windows-1252
[50] => Windows-1254
[51] => ISO-8859-1
[52] => ISO-8859-2
[53] => ISO-8859-3
[54] => ISO-8859-4
[55] => ISO-8859-5
[56] => ISO-8859-6
[57] => ISO-8859-7
[58] => ISO-8859-8
[59] => ISO-8859-9
[60] => ISO-8859-10
[61] => ISO-8859-13
[62] => ISO-8859-14
[63] => ISO-8859-15
[64] => ISO-8859-16
[65] => EUC-CN
[66] => CP936
[67] => HZ
[68] => EUC-TW
[69] => BIG-5
[70] => CP950
[71] => EUC-KR
[72] => UHC
[73] => ISO-2022-KR
[74] => Windows-1251
[75] => CP866
[76] => KOI8-R
[77] => KOI8-U
[78] => ArmSCII-8
[79] => CP850
[80] => JIS-ms
[81] => ISO-2022-JP-2004
[82] => ISO-2022-JP-MOBILE#KDDI
[83] => CP50220
[84] => CP50220raw
[85] => CP50221
[86] => CP50222
)
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