> As of the current versions, there's no way to get a list of all the
> supported encodings, though I don't know why you want to know such.
I need to see if the encodings I am interested in (BIG-5, gb2312) are
supported. According to the documentation those encodings are avaliable since
PHP 4.3.0, but not always enabled. So, for PHP version 4.3.0-4.3.3 I need a
way to determine their availability.
> What do you want to do exactly with this idea? I've never been in a
> situation like that
This is an interesting situation, I am trying to make a search system capable
of supporting multibyte languages. Currently (non-mutlibyte) systems works by
breaking the text into individual words to be indexed. This unfortunately
won't work for multibyte languages were there is rarely a space between
'words'. The solution I am tinkering with, involves indexing the text by
'characters', but to do that I need to good (fast & reliable) method of
breaking a text into individual multibyte characters.
So far my solution has been to do this:
preg_match_all('!(\W)!u', iconv("BIG-5", "UTF-8", $str), $words);
Ilia
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