utf8_decode

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utf8_decode - Converts a string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, replacing invalid or unrepresentable characters

utf8_decode( string$string ): string

This function converts the string string from the UTF-8 encoding to ISO-8859-1. Bytes in the string which are not valid UTF-8, and UTF-8 characters which do not exist in ISO-8859-1 (that is, code points above U+00FF) are replaced with ?.

Note:

Many web pages marked as using the ISO-8859-1 character encoding actually use the similar Windows-1252 encoding, and web browsers will interpret ISO-8859-1 web pages as Windows-1252. Windows-1252 features additional printable characters, such as the Euro sign (€) and curly quotes (“ ”), instead of certain ISO-8859-1 control characters. This function will not convert such Windows-1252 characters correctly. Use a different function if Windows-1252 conversion is required.

Parameters

string

A UTF-8 encoded string.

Return Values

Returns the ISO-8859-1 translation of string.

Changelog

Version Description
7.2.0 This function has been moved from the XML extension to the core of PHP. In previous versions, it was only available if the XML extension was installed.

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