https://coder.tw/en/tags/encoding/Recent content in Encoding on Lin's BlogHugoen-USFri, 04 Feb 2011 12:24:55 +0000https://coder.tw/en/posts/php-mb-convert-encoding-big5-utf8-gbk/Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:24:55 +0000https://coder.tw/en/posts/php-mb-convert-encoding-big5-utf8-gbk/<p><a href="https://pub-6c026d2742d14927bfa2d850c31eac91.r2.dev/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2011-02-04_123628.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-4662" title="2011-02-04_123628" src="https://pub-6c026d2742d14927bfa2d850c31eac91.r2.dev/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2011-02-04_123628-520x303.jpg" alt="" width="520" height="303" /></a></p> <p>↑↑This is viewed in Chrome with Big5 encoding. The top is before conversion, and the bottom is after conversion.</p> <p>Yesterday, while playing with the Google Weather API, I found that it has a parameter for setting your language. If you don&rsquo;t set it, the API returns English in UTF-8 encoding. But if you set zh-TW, it returns Chinese, encoded in Big5. So when using this API, I had to re-encode its return value to UTF-8 before I could use it. After all, there aren&rsquo;t many Big5 websites left, so yesterday I went looking for the mb_convert_encoding function to do the encoding conversion for me~</p>