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.