PHP string encoding conversion small example

function phpcharset($data, $to) {
if(is_array($data)) {
foreach($data as $key => $val) {
$data[$key] = phpcharset($val, $to);
}
} else {
$encode_array = array('ascii', 'utf-8', 'gbk', 'gb2312', 'big5');
$encoded = mb_detect_encoding($data, $encode_array);
$to = strtoupper($to);
if($encoded != $to) {
$data = mb_convert_encoding($data, $to, $encoded);
}
}
return $data;
}
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