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Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecate and Remove utf8_encode and utf8_decode
From: internals@lists.php.net ("Björn Larsson via internals")

Den 2022-03-24 kl. 19:48, skrev Rowan Tommins:
> On 24/03/2022 15:51, Björn Larsson wrote:
>> Well, the usecase I can provide is that we have a site with content
>> in ISO9959-1 (Latin 1).
> 
> 
> Thanks for the data point. Out of curiosity, what language is the site 
> in, and where are you based?
>
It's in swedish and I'm located in Sweden.

> One of the things missing from Latin-1 is the Euro symbol (because it 
> wasn't invented yet), so I'm guessing your site doesn't need that?
> 
No, we are not using that one. In one specific case for payment we just 
write euro ;-)
> 
>> I also find the usage of both functions in one of our most important
>> Open Source libraries. How important they are there I don't know. 
>
> 
> Can you point me to the library in question? I'd be interested to see 
> how they're using it.
>
Yes, it's the Revive Ad server. At the moment we are on v4, going for 
v5.4 as soon it's released.

Regards //Björn Larsson