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Request #51623 Upgrade utf8_enc/decode to Windows-1252
Submitted: 2010-04-21 13:47 UTC Modified: 2010-04-21 13:55 UTC
From: nicolas dot grekas+php at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Unknown/Other Function
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-04-21 13:47 UTC] nicolas dot grekas+php at gmail dot com 
Description:
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utf8_enc/decode enc/decodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 and vice versa


I think it would be a good improvement to use Windows-1252 instead of ISO-8859-1

Windows-1252 is a superset of ISO-8859-1, which only adds some glyphs to unused ISO-8859-1 code point.

Added to the fact that Windows-1252 is a de facto world wide standard, that HTML5 is standardizing on UTF-8/Windows-1252 "even if ISO-8859-1 it stated in the document".

That would also fix a lot of scripts on the web, where we see some <92> "characters" instead of ’ (opening single quote, or apostrophe) for example

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 [2010-04-21 13:55 UTC] pajoye@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Wont fix
 [2010-04-21 13:55 UTC] pajoye@php.net 
Please use mbstring or iconv instead.
 
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