note 47596 deleted from ref.iconv by sean

Note Submitter: jraxis.com <--at-- webmaster ---- Changing the name of this function to libiconv() is an incredibly Bad Idea -- it makes code that works perfectly under one PHP installation fail completely when moved to a different host for (apparently) no reason. It took me a fair bit of time to figure out why code that worked locally was failing on my hosting provider's box due to iconv() being undefined, and yet phpinfo() was showing iconv installed in both places. That said, here's a workaround I'm using on my site: <?php function rax_iconv( $from, $to, $string ) { if( function_exists( 'iconv' )) return( iconv( $from, $to, $string )); if( function_exists( 'libiconv' )) return( libiconv( $from, $to, $string )); return( FALSE ); }; ?> ---- Reason: useless note