Re: What should we do with utf8_encode and utf8_decode?

From: Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 20:04:40 +0000
Subject: Re: What should we do with utf8_encode and utf8_decode?
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:04 AM Aleksander Machniak <alec@alec.pl> wrote:

>     $str = "グーグル谷歌中信фδοκιμήóźdźрöß😁😃";
>
>     $this->assertSame($str, utf8_decode(utf8_encode($str)));
>
>
Woah. Yeah. No.  Don't do that.
Doing that is what's wrong with utf8_en/decode().
Doing that convinces me that Rowan is right and we should deprecate then
remove those functions without offering a simple replacement.
Christ's sake... no.

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