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Should you use mb_convert_encoding() like you show for any character encoding you are using -- or only UTF8?

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It's the 21st century! One shouldn't be using any encoding *besides* unicode (utf-8 or utf-16). It amuses me to no end how poorly supported unicode is in PHP, and if I recall correctly, they pushed full-blown utf8 support to PHP6.

Here's a good primer:


Btw, maybe you should split this discussion to a different topic so that more people would chime in.

My question was about whether this technique will work with converting any encoding to itself? Or if you recommend converting to UTF8 always? It seems like the point of this is to deal with multi-byte exploits.

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If you just want to check encoding you can use, like, as

Or there's the regex method which is meh but works.

I'm trying to think why you might want to actually convert one encoding back into itself. It would never do anything. Maybe you're having it detect the encoding and are worried if the original encoding is UTF-8 then it might do something weird. But then that means you don't know what the original encoding is?