test if mb_internal_encoding() is available in functions.php head

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/functions.php b/include/functions.php
index d6bd5fb73..3ccc09d75 100755
--- a/include/functions.php
+++ b/include/functions.php
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
 
 	libxml_disable_entity_loader(true);
 
-	mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
+	// separate test because this is included before sanity checks
+	if (function_exists("mb_internal_encoding")) mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
+
 	date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
 	if (defined('E_DEPRECATED')) {
 		error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE & ~E_DEPRECATED);