[php-src] Issue #8006: var_dump() function displays certain strings incorrectly

Issue: https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/8006 Comment Author: cmb69 var_dump() outputs the *bytes* of string, and it's up to the receiver to interpret that. If you send an UTF-8 encoded ü in a document that's interpreted as ISO-8859-1 encoded, you don't get that magically fixed either. Okay, there are output_encoding and friends, so it might make sense to introduce a respective INI directive, but the current behavior is certainly not a bug. I'm re-classifying as feature request requiring an RFC. An alternative would be to re-classify as doc issue.