note 41293 deleted from function.utf8-encode by cmb

Note Submitter: lorro at lorro dot wigner dot bme dot hu ---- Good news is that utf8_encode (like UTF-8) passes '<', '>', '/', '\'', '"', etc., so you are free to utf8_encode complete blocks of html text that includes tags. Bad news is that UTF-8 is stupid enough so that utf8_encode(utf8_encode($str)) != utf8_encode($str) in most of the cases. What you can do is write utf8_ensure like: function utf8_ensure($str) { return seems_utf8($str)? $str: utf8_encode($str); } Comes handy when your view library tries to encode the same text multiple times.