note 85866 added to function.utf8-encode

...or just use this simple piece of code to check valid utf-8 string: /** * Returns true if $string is valid UTF-8 and false otherwise. * * @since 1.14 * @param [mixed] $string string to be tested * @subpackage */ function is_utf8($string) { // From http://w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html return preg_match('%^(?: [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte | \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs | [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte | \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates | \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # planes 1-3 | [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} # planes 4-15 | \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16 )*$%xs', $string); } ---- Server IP: 217.160.72.57 Probable Submitter: 92.75.5.19 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-encode.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/85866 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85866/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85866/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85866/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85866/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85866/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85866/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/85866 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/85866 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php