Encoding¶
Encoding is a generic term, and is used in different places:
Text encoding, for manipulations with iconv or mbstring
Declare encoding, with the declare keyword
HTTP encoding, for input and output operations
Text encoding is the process of converting characters into a specific format that can be stored, processed, or transmitted by computers. Different encodings represent characters as a series of bytes. The default encoding for text is UTF-8, which as the most general usage. Many other encoding exist.
See also Supported Character Encodings.
Related : declare Encoding, Text Encoding, HTTP Encoding, Iconv, Multibyte String, Character, default_charset, UTF-8, WHATWG, HTML Entity
