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The function utf8_decode() was a shortcut to convert strings encoded from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 ("Latin 1"). This function was deprecated since PHP 8.2 and will be dropped in PHP 9: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_utf8_decode_and_utf8_encode As mentioned in the RFC, if a $string is a valid UTF-8 string, so this could be used to count the number of code points: strlen(utf8_decode($string)) That works because any unmappable code point is replaced with the single byte '?' in the output. The native PHP approach is this one: mb_strlen($string, 'UTF-8'); Also, another approach is this one: iconv_strlen($string, 'UTF-8') Note that the first method can be adopted since PHP 4, so, there are no compatibility issues. https://we.phorge.it/T15188 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_utf8_decode_and_utf8_encode https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php https://github.com/rectorphp/rector/blob/main/docs/rector_rules_overview.md#utf8decodeencodetombconvertencodingrector Closes T15188

The function utf8_decode() was a shortcut to convert strings encoded from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 ("Latin 1"). This function was deprecated since PHP 8.2 and will be dropped in PHP 9: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_utf8_decode_and_utf8_encode As mentioned in the RFC, if a $string is a valid UTF-8 string, so this could be used to count the number of code points: strlen(utf8_decode($string)) It works because any unmappable code point is replaced with the single byte '?' in the output. But, the correct native approach should be this one: mb_strlen($string, 'UTF-8'); Also, another good approach is this one: iconv_strlen($string, 'UTF-8') Note that mb_strlen() was introduced in PHP 4, so, there are no compatibility issues in using that. Note that the mbstring extension is already required in the installation documentation, so this should not change anything for any person. https://we.phorge.it/T15188 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_utf8_decode_and_utf8_encode https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php https://github.com/rectorphp/rector/blob/main/docs/rector_rules_overview.md#utf8decodeencodetombconvertencodingrector Closes T15188

The function utf8_decode() was a shortcut to convert strings encoded from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 ("Latin 1"). This function was deprecated since PHP 8.2 and will be dropped in PHP 9: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_utf8_decode_and_utf8_encode As mentioned in the RFC, if a $string is a valid UTF-8 string, so this could be used to count the number of code points: strlen(utf8_decode($string)) ThatIt works because any unmappable code point is replaced with the single byte '?' in the output. TheBut, the correct native PHP approach ish should be this one: mb_strlen($string, 'UTF-8'); Also, another good approach is this one: iconv_strlen($string, 'UTF-8') Note that the first method can be adopted sincemb_strlen() was introduced in PHP 4, so, there are no compatibility issues in using that. Note that the mbstring extension is already required in the installation are no compatibility issues. documentation, so this should not change anything for any person. https://we.phorge.it/T15188 https://wiki.php.net/rfc/remove_utf8_decode_and_utf8_encode https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.utf8-decode https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php https://github.com/rectorphp/rector/blob/main/docs/rector_rules_overview.md#utf8decodeencodetombconvertencodingrector Closes T15188