How to check the charset of string?

Question

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

Answer 1

function is_utf8($string) {   
return preg_match('%^(?:  
[\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII  
| [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte  
| \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs  
| [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte  
| \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates  
| \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # planes 1-3  
| [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} # planes 4-15  
| \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16  
)*$%xs', $string);   

}

I have checked. This function is effective.