utf8_encode
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
utf8_encode — Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8
Description
string utf8_encode
( string $data
)
Note:
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 (“
â€), 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.
Parameters
-
data
-
An ISO-8859-1 string.
Return Values
Returns the UTF-8 translation of data
.
See Also
- utf8_decode() - Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8
to single-byte ISO-8859-1 - Performs the reverse conversion
- mb_convert_encoding() - Convert character encoding - Converts between various character encodings, including UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252
- iconv() - Convert string to requested character encoding - Converts between various character encodings
- recode_string() - Recode a string according to a recode request - Converts between various character encodings