note 44843 deleted from function.utf8-encode by cmb

Note Submitter: steven -at- acko -dot- net ---- Note that you should only use utf8_encode() on ISO-8859-1 data, and not on data using the Windows-1252 codepage. Microsoft's Windows-1252 codepage contains ISO-8859-1, but it includes several characters in the range 0x80-0x9F whose codepoints in Unicode do not match the byte's value (in Unicode, codepoints U+80 - U+9F are unassigned). utf8_encode() simply assumes the bytes integer value is the codepoint number in Unicode. E.g. in 1252, byte 0x80 is the euro sign, which is U+20AC. The same goes for curly quotes, em dashes, etc. utf8_encode() will convert 0x80 into U+0080 (an unassigned codepoint) rather than U+20AC. To convert 1252 to UTF-8, use iconv, recode or mbstring.