This module contains an interface to the GNU Recode library, version 3.5. To be able to use the functions defined in this module you must compile you PHP interpreter using the --with-recode option. In order to do so, you must have GNU Recode 3.5 or higher installed on your system.
The GNU Recode library converts files between various coded character sets and surface encodings. When this cannot be achieved exactly, it may get rid of the offending characters or fall back on approximations. The library recognises or produces nearly 150 different character sets and is able to convert files between almost any pair. Most RFC 1345 character sets are supported.
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Crashes and startup problems of PHP may be encountered when loading the recode as extension after loading any extension of mysql or imap. Loading the recode before those extension has proven to fix the problem. This is due a technical problem that both the c-client library used by imap and recode have their own hash_lookup() function and both mysql and recode have their own hash_insert function. |