Title: Call to undefined function ‘mb_detect_encoding’
Last modified: July 5, 2018

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# Call to undefined function ‘mb_detect_encoding’

 *  Resolved [pixelbrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelbrad/)
 * (@pixelbrad)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-to-undefined-function-mb_detect_encoding-2/)
 * First off, I am aware that someone posted this issue here over a year ago.
 * Second, this issue is still breaking sites over one year later.
 * Can you not simply check if the `mb_detect_encoding` function exists before calling
   it?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Daniel Espinoza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/growdev/)
 * (@growdev)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-to-undefined-function-mb_detect_encoding-2/#post-10466461)
 * Thanks for the suggestion [@pixelbrad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelbrad/)
   I’ll get it sorted.

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 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/call-to-undefined-function-mb_detect_encoding-2/#post-10466461)
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