The Symfony Polyfill / Iconv Component

This component provides a native PHP implementation of the iconv_*functions to users who run PHP versions without the iconv extension.

Installation

$ composer require symfony/polyfill-iconv

Note

If you install this component outside of a Symfony application, you mustrequire the vendor/autoload.php file in your code to enable the classautoloading mechanism provided by Composer. Readthis article for more details.

Usage

Once this component is installed in your application, you can use the followingconstants and functions, no matter if the PHP iconv extension is installed ornot in your server. The only function not implemented in this component isob_iconv_handler.

Provided Constants

• ICONV_IMPL (value = 'Symfony')
• ICONV_VERSION (value = '1.0')
• ICONV_MIME_DECODE_STRICT (value = 1)
• ICONV_MIME_DECODE_CONTINUE_ON_ERROR (value = 2)

Provided Functions

These functions are always available:

• iconv
• iconv_get_encoding
• iconv_set_encoding
• iconv_mime_encode

• iconv_mime_decode_headersThese functions are only available when the mbstring or the xmlextension are installed:

• iconv_strlen

• iconv_strpos
• iconv_strrpos
• iconv_substr
• iconv_mime_decode