# fdf_get_encoding

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5 < 5.3.0, PECL fdf SVN)

fdf_get_encoding — Get the value of the /Encoding key

### Description

fdf_get_encoding ( resource `$fdf_document` ) : string

Gets the value of the `/Encoding` key.

### Parameters

`fdf_document`

  The FDF document handle, returned by fdf_create(), fdf_open() or fdf_open_string().

### Return Values

Returns the encoding as a string. An empty string is returned if the default `PDFDocEncoding/Unicode` scheme is used.

### See Also

- fdf_set_encoding() - Sets FDF character encoding