How to convert a utf-8 string to a utf-16 string in PHP

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Freddo411 picture Freddo411 · Oct 1, 2008 · Viewed 25.3k times · Source

How do I convert a utf-8 string to a utf-16 string in PHP?

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chroder picture chroder · Oct 1, 2008

mbstring supports UTF-16, so you can use mb_convert_encoding.

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