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double byte character set
双字节字符集
Last Update: 2006-09-06
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the third argument defines character set used in conversion.
note that this function does not translate anything beyond what is listed above. for full entity translation, see htmlentities(). support for the optional second argument was added in php 3.0.17 and php 4.0.3.
a multi-byte character encoding represents single character with consecutive bytes.
there are many languages in which all characters can be expressed by single byte. multi-byte character codes are used to express many characters for many languages. mbstring is developed to handle japanese characters. however, many mbstring functions are able to handle character encoding other than japanese.