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<refentry xml:id="function.recode-string" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
 <refnamediv>
  <refname>recode_string</refname>
  <refpurpose>Recode a string according to a recode request</refpurpose>
 </refnamediv>
 
 <refsect1 role="description">
  &reftitle.description;
  <methodsynopsis>
   <type>string</type><methodname>recode_string</methodname>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>request</parameter></methodparam>
   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>string</parameter></methodparam>
  </methodsynopsis>
  <para>
   Recode the string <parameter>string</parameter> according to
   the recode request <parameter>request</parameter>. 
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="parameters">
  &reftitle.parameters;
  <para>
   <variablelist>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The desired recode request type
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
     <term><parameter>string</parameter></term>
     <listitem>
      <para>
       The <type>string</type> to be recoded
      </para>
     </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
   </variablelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
  &reftitle.returnvalues;
  <para>
   Returns the recoded <type>string</type> or &false;, if unable to 
   perform the recode request.
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="examples">
  &reftitle.examples;
  <para>
   <example>
    <title>Basic <function>recode_string</function> example</title>
    <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
echo recode_string("us..flat", "The following character has a diacritical mark: á");
?>

]]>
    </programlisting>
   </example>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="notes">
  &reftitle.notes;
   <para>
    A simple recode request may be &quot;lat1..iso646-de&quot;.
   </para>
 </refsect1>

 <refsect1 role="seealso">
  &reftitle.seealso;
  <para>
   <simplelist>
    <member>
     The GNU Recode documentation of your installation for detailed 
     instructions about recode requests.
    </member>
    <member><function>mb_convert_encoding</function></member>
    <member><methodname>UConverter::transcode</methodname></member>
    <member><function>iconv</function></member>
   </simplelist>
  </para>
 </refsect1>

</refentry>

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