Re: [RFC] Deprecate and Remove utf8_encode and utf8_decode

On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 18:55, Rowan Tommins <rowan.collins@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to open discussion on an RFC to deprecate and later remove > the functions utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_utf8_decode_and_utf8_encode > Thanks Rowan. Whenever I see these functions being used (including when I used them), it's been, as you note, "commonly misunderstood" - so I'd be happy to see the back of them. Only query I have is about the availability of different functions... not sure why, but the documentation says these are provided by the "xml" extension, even though it looks like they are in ./standard/string.c (your pull request seems to correct this)... so I assume projects have used these functions on the basis that they are always available... I suppose you could argue that "iconv" is enabled by default, so that's hopefully reliable (even though it can be disabled with --without-iconv)... whereas "mbstring" and "intl" are non-default extensions. Craig