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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC][DISCUSSION] Remove utf8_decode() andutf8_encode()
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 22.08.2016 at 12:55, Michael Wallner wrote:

> On 22/08/16 12:44, Rowan Collins wrote:
> 
>> As far as I can see, these functions exist because the XML parser
>> infrastructure needed them, and someone thought it might be handy to
>> expose them to users. Funnily enough, the internal versions actually
>> take a parameter for the target encoding, but only support US-ASCII and
>> 8859-1: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/xml/xml.c#L283
>>
>> If anything, they should probably have a "str_" prefix, and maybe even
>> be moved into the string section of the source, exposed in such a way
>> that the XML parser can still make use of them.
> 
> Thanks for looking deeper. That makes even more sense now.

+1

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Christoph M. Becker