default_charset¶
default_charset is the default value for the character encoding with htmlentities(), html_entity_decode() and htmlspecialchars(), when the encoding parameter is omitted.
It also defines the default character set for iconv and mbstring extensions, and for the Content-Type HTTP headers, when custom versions are not defined.
The value of default_charset must be a valid IANA character set name. Possible values include UTF-8, by default, ISO-8859-1 also known as Latin1, Windows-1252, ISO-8859-15, Shift_JIS, EUC-JP, GB2312, Big5. The charset is case-insensitive, so big5 and BIG5 and Big5 are all valid. Invalid charset default, again, to UTF-8.
See also About default_charset and IANA Character Sets.
Related : UTF-8, Encoding, htmlentities(), htmlspecialchars, html_entity_decode, Incoming Data, Outgoing Data
