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+<?php
+/**
+ * dolphin. Collection of useful PHP skeletons.
+ * Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Johannes 'Banana' Keßler
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the
+ * COMMON DEVELOPMENT AND DISTRIBUTION LICENSE (CDDL) Version 1.0
+ * along with this program. If not, see http://www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html
+ */
+
+/**
+ * return if the given string is utf8
+ * http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-detect-encoding.php
+ *
+ * @param string $string
+ * @return number
+ */
+function is_utf8($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);
+}
+
+?>