Re: [PHP-DEV] What should we do with utf8_encode and utf8_decode?

2021-12-21 Thread Wade Rossmann
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 9:52 AM Larry Garfield wrote: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, at 9:18 AM, Rowan Tommins wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The functions utf8_encode and utf8_decode are historical oddities, which > > almost certainly would not be accepted if proposed today: > > > > * Their names do not de

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] Deprecate and Remove utf8_encode and utf8_decode

2022-03-23 Thread Wade Rossmann
As someone who has spent a _lot_ of time on IRC and StackOverflow answering encoding questions over the last 10 years or so I am 100% behind this change, even though I'm not able to vote for it. Thank you for putting this RFC forward. On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 6:47 AM Rowan Tommins wrote: > On 2