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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:38:28 +0200
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To: Aleksander Machniak <alec@alec.pl>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What should we do with utf8_encode and utf8_decode?
From: drealecs@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Alexandru_P=C4=83tr=C4=83nescu?=)

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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 7:24 PM Alexandru P=C4=83tr=C4=83nescu <drealecs@gm=
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wrote:

>
> There could have been better ways to fix it.
> json_encode / json_decode would have worked just the same.
>
> Nope, strings in a json object must be UTF-8.
As Rowan mentioned, base64_encode would have worked. But that means one
quarter of the available max column space would be lost as a downside.

>
> Regards,
> Alex
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