utf8_decode
utf8_decode
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
utf8_decode — Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1
Description
string utf8_decode ( string $data )
This function converts the string data from the UTF-8 encoding to ISO-8859-1. Bytes in the string which are not valid UTF-8, and UTF-8 characters which do not exist in ISO-8859-1 (that is, characters above U+00FF) are replaced with ?.
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.
Parameters
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data -
A UTF-8 encoded string.
Return Values
Returns the ISO-8859-1 translation of data.
See Also
- utf8_encode() - Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 - Performs the reverse conversion
- mb_convert_encoding() - Convert character encoding - Converts between various character encodings, including UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252
- iconv() - Convert string to requested character encoding - Converts between various character encodings
- recode_string() - Recode a string according to a recode request - Converts between various character encodings
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https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php
