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_canonical_charset( string $charset )

Retrieve a canonical form of the provided charset appropriate for passing to PHP functions such as htmlspecialchars() and charset html attributes.


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Parameters Parameters

$charset

(string) (Required) A charset name.


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Return Return

(string) The canonical form of the charset.


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Source Source

File: wp-includes/functions.php

function _canonical_charset( $charset ) {
	if ( 'utf-8' === strtolower( $charset ) || 'utf8' === strtolower( $charset ) ) {

		return 'UTF-8';
	}

	if ( 'iso-8859-1' === strtolower( $charset ) || 'iso8859-1' === strtolower( $charset ) ) {

		return 'ISO-8859-1';
	}

	return $charset;
}

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Version Description
3.6.0 Introduced.


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