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Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string [message #180482 is a reply to message #180481]

Thu, 21 February 2013 15:58

The Natural Philosoph
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On 21/02/13 15:18, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 21/02/13 13:44, Giacomo M wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> You know why the code in the subject
>>
>> utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string))
>>
>> does not return the same string??
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
> because something gets 'lost in translation'?
>
> :-)
>
>
"Please note that utf8_decode simply converts a string encoded in UTF-8
to ISO-8859-1. A more appropriate name for it would be utf8_to_iso88591.
If your text is already encoded in ISO-8859-1, you do not need this
function. If you don't want to use ISO-8859-1, you do not need this
function.

Note that UTF-8 can represent many more characters than ISO-8859-1.
Trying to convert a UTF-8 string that contains characters that can't be
represented in ISO-8859-1 to ISO-8859-1 will garble your text and/or
cause characters to go missing. Trying to convert text that is not
encoded in UTF-8 using this function will most likely garble the text."

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode.php

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		utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Giacomo M on Thu, 21 February 2013 13:44
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 21 February 2013 15:18
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 21 February 2013 15:58
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Giacomo M on Thu, 21 February 2013 18:39
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Tim Streater on Thu, 21 February 2013 19:08
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Giacomo M on Thu, 21 February 2013 19:13
		Re: utf8_encode(utf8_decode(string)) doesn't return same string By: Tim Streater on Thu, 21 February 2013 22:29

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