(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
utf8_encode — Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8
$data
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This function converts the string data from the
ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8.
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.
dataAn ISO-8859-1 string.
Returns the UTF-8 translation of data.
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 7.2.0 | This function has been moved to the core of PHP, and therefore lifting the requirement on the XML extension for this function to be available. |