mb_detect_order  mb_detect_order    (PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)
mb_detect_order -- 
     Set/Get character encoding detection order
    
Description mixed 
mb_detect_order  ( [mixed encoding_list] )
     mb_detect_order()  sets automatic character
     encoding detection order to encoding_list .
     It returns TRUE   for success,
     FALSE   for failure.
    
     encoding_list  is array or comma separated
     list of character encoding. ("auto" is expanded to
     "ASCII, JIS, UTF-8, EUC-JP, SJIS")
    
     If encoding_list  is omitted, it returns
     current character encoding detection order as array.
    
     This setting affects mb_detect_encoding()   and
     mb_send_mail()  .
    
Note:  
      mbstring  currently implements following
      encoding detection filters. If there is an invalid byte sequence
      for following encoding, encoding detection will fail.
     
Note:  
       UTF-8 , UTF-7 ,
       ASCII ,
       EUC-JP ,SJIS ,
       eucJP-win , SJIS-win ,
       JIS , ISO-2022-JP  
     
      For ISO-8859-* , mbstring 
      always detects as ISO-8859-* .
     
      For UTF-16 , UTF-32 ,
      UCS2  and UCS4 , encoding
      detection will fail always.
     
      
Example 1. Useless detect order example 
; Always detect as ISO-8859-1
detect_order = ISO-8859-1, UTF-8
; Always detect as UTF-8, since ASCII/UTF-7 values are 
; valid for UTF-8
detect_order = UTF-8, ASCII, UTF-7 
     
     
Example 2. mb_detect_order()  examples 
<?php /* Set detection order by enumerated list */ mb_detect_order ( "eucjp-win,sjis-win,UTF-8" ); /* Set detection order by array */ $ary [] =  "ASCII" ; $ary [] =  "JIS" ; $ary [] =  "EUC-JP" ; mb_detect_order ( $ary ); /* Display current detection order */ echo  implode ( ", " ,  mb_detect_order ()); ?> 
 
    
     See also mb_internal_encoding()  ,
     mb_http_input()  ,
     mb_http_output()   and
     mb_send_mail()  .