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How to detect English/ASCII string in PHP

There is no direct function for this in my knowledge. But it can be done easily like so.

if ( mb_strlen( $string, 'ASCII' ) === mb_strlen( $string, 'utf-8' ) ) {
    return true;
}

By Abhineet Mittal

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