Req #51623 [Opn->Wfx]: Upgrade utf8_enc/decode to Windows-1252

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51623&edit=1 ID: 51623 Updated by: pajoye@php.net Reported by: nicolas dot grekas+php at gmail dot com Summary: Upgrade utf8_enc/decode to Windows-1252 -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Unknown/Other Function PHP Version: Irrelevant New Comment: Please use mbstring or iconv instead. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-04-21 13:47:22] nicolas dot grekas+php at gmail dot com Description: ------------ utf8_enc/decode enc/decodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 and vice versa I think it would be a good improvement to use Windows-1252 instead of ISO-8859-1 Windows-1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, which only adds some glyphs to unused ISO-8859-1 code point. Added to the fact that Windows-1252 is a de facto world wide standard, that HTML5 is standardizing on UTF-8/Windows-1252 "even if ISO-8859-1 it stated in the document". That would also fix a lot of scripts on the web, where we see some <92> "characters" instead of ’ (opening single quote, or apostrophe) for example ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51623&edit=1