How do I detect non-ASCII characters in a string?

Question

If I have a PHP string, how can I determine if it contains at least one non-ASCII character or not, in an efficient way? And by non-ASCII character, I mean any character tha

Answer 1

I suggest you look into utf8_encode or utf8_decode under PHP's manual:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php

Look into the examples down below as it may have something there that leads you to the right direction if not finding what you are looking for.