On 25/08/2016 12:10, Lester Caine wrote:
Is there any well documented alternative way of achieving the same results as provided by these functions? Much of the time there is on-list debates on how something should be done, but it gets somewhat watered down in a migration guide ... if it makes it there at all.
In this specific case, look at http://php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php or http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php
But in general, yes, as Dave Walker mentioned, documenting proper migration steps should be a standard part of any deprecation.
Much as I appreciate the Meaningless Internet Points it's earning me, this Stack Overflow post explaining preg_replace_callback should really have been a prominently-linked page in the official manual: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15454454/157957
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