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Human Language and Character Encoding Support
Enchant
— Enchant spelling library
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Examples
Enchant Functions
EnchantBroker
— The EnchantBroker class
EnchantDictionary
— The EnchantDictionary class
Gender
— Determine gender of firstnames
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Examples
Gender\Gender
— The Gender\Gender class
Gettext
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Gettext Functions
iconv
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
iconv Functions
intl
— Internationalization Functions
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Examples
Collator
— The Collator class
NumberFormatter
— The NumberFormatter class
Locale
— The Locale class
Normalizer
— The Normalizer class
MessageFormatter
— The MessageFormatter class
IntlCalendar
— The IntlCalendar class
IntlGregorianCalendar
— The IntlGregorianCalendar class
IntlTimeZone
— The IntlTimeZone class
IntlDateFormatter
— The IntlDateFormatter class
ResourceBundle
— The ResourceBundle class
Spoofchecker
— The Spoofchecker class
Transliterator
— The Transliterator class
IntlBreakIterator
— The IntlBreakIterator class
IntlRuleBasedBreakIterator
— The IntlRuleBasedBreakIterator class
IntlCodePointBreakIterator
— The IntlCodePointBreakIterator class
IntlDatePatternGenerator
— The IntlDatePatternGenerator class
IntlPartsIterator
— The IntlPartsIterator class
UConverter
— The UConverter class
Grapheme Functions
IDN Functions
IntlChar
IntlException
— Exception class for intl errors
IntlIterator
— The IntlIterator class
intl Functions
Multibyte String
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Summaries of supported encodings
Basics of Japanese multi-byte encodings
HTTP Input and Output
Supported Character Encodings
Function Overloading Feature
PHP Character Encoding Requirements
Multibyte String Functions
Pspell
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Predefined Constants
Pspell Functions
PSpell\Dictionary
— The PSpell\Dictionary class
PSpell\Config
— The PSpell\Config class
Recode
— GNU Recode
Introduction
Installing/Configuring
Recode Functions
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