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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What should we do with utf8_encode and utf8_decode?
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Tommins)

On 22/12/2021 14:45, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote:
> I wonder if anyone depends on utf8_* without also depending on mb_* ? I
> imagine that is exceedingly rare


On the contrary, anyone who uses mb_* functions is likely to use 
mb_convert_encoding rather than utf8_encode and utf8_decode.

In fact, the only legitimate uses of the functions I've seen are as a 
fallback for when ext/mbstring is not loaded, since they are always 
available (since PHP 7.2; before that, they were oddly part of ext/xml). 
There is a very small set of use cases where you really do know you have 
or want ISO 8859-1, and they are the most portable implementation.

Regards,

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Rowan Tommins
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