How to check the charset of string?

Question

How do I check if the charset of a string is UTF8?

Answer 1

None of the above answers are correct. Yes, they may be working. If you take the answer with the preg_replace function, are you trying to kill your server if you process a lot of stirng ? Use this pure PHP function with no regex, work 100% of the time and it's way faster.

if(function_exists('grk_Is_UTF8') === FALSE){
    function grk_Is_UTF8($String=''){
        #   On va calculer la longeur de la chaîne
        $Len = strlen($String);

        #   On va boucler sur chaque caractère
        for($i = 0; $i < $Len; $i++){
            #   On va aller chercher la valeur ASCII du caractère
            $Ord = ord($String[$i]);
            if($Ord > 128){
                if($Ord > 247){
                    return FALSE;
                } elseif($Ord > 239){
                    $Bytes = 4;
                } elseif($Ord > 223){
                    $Bytes = 3;
                } elseif($Ord > 191){
                    $Bytes = 2;
                } else {
                    return FALSE;
                }

                #   
                if(($i + $Bytes) > $Len){
                    return FALSE;
                }

                #   On va boucler sur chaque bytes / caractères
                while($Bytes > 1){
                    #   +1
                    $i++;

                    #   On va aller chercher la valeur ASCII du caractère / byte
                    $Ord = ord($String[$i]);
                    if($Ord < 128 OR $Ord > 191){
                        return FALSE;
                    }

                    #   Parfait
                    $Bytes--;
                }
            }
        }

        #   Vrai
        return TRUE;
    }
}