utf8_decode

Definition and usage

The utf8_decode() function decodes the UTF-8 encoded string to ISO-8859-1.

This function decodes the string previously encoded with the utf8_encode() function back to ISO-8859-1.

Example

Decode the UTF-8 string to ISO-8859-1:

 <?php
$text = "\xE0" ;
echo utf8_encode ( $text ) . "<br>" ;
echo utf8_decode ( $text ) ;
?>

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grammar

 utf8_decode ( string )