utf8_decode Converts a string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, replacing invalid or unrepresentable characters &warn.deprecated.function-8-2-0; &reftitle.description; stringutf8_decode stringstring This function converts the string string from the UTF-8 encoding to ISO-8859-1. Bytes in the string which are not valid UTF-8, and UTF-8 characters which do not exist in ISO-8859-1 (that is, code points above U+00FF) are replaced with ?. Many web pages marked as using the ISO-8859-1 character encoding actually use the similar Windows-1252 encoding, and web browsers will interpret ISO-8859-1 web pages as Windows-1252. Windows-1252 features additional printable characters, such as the Euro sign (€) and curly quotes (“ ”), instead of certain ISO-8859-1 control characters. This function will not convert such Windows-1252 characters correctly. Use a different function if Windows-1252 conversion is required. &reftitle.parameters; string A UTF-8 encoded string. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the ISO-8859-1 translation of string. &reftitle.changelog; &Version; &Description; 8.2.0 This function has been deprecated. 7.2.0 This function has been moved from the XML extension to the core of PHP. In previous versions, it was only available if the XML extension was installed. &reftitle.examples; ]]> &example.outputs; &reftitle.seealso; utf8_encode mb_convert_encoding UConverter::transcode iconv