EncodingMatch

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Result of detecting the encoding of an array of bytes

Interface Synopsis

class EncodingMatch {...}

Public Methods

• ->getConfidence(): int
  Gets the confidence number of the encoding match

• ->getEncoding(): string
  Gets the name of the detected encoding

• ->getLanguage(): string
  Gets a rough guess at the language of the encoded bytes

• ->getUTF8(): string
  Gets the UTF-8 encoded version of the encoded byte array

• ->isValid(): bool
  Checks if the encoding match succeeded