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<h1 class="refname">utf8_decode</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">utf8_decode</span> — <span class="dc-title">
Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8
to single-byte ISO-8859-1
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>utf8_decode</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$data</code></span>
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This function decodes <em><code class="parameter">data</code></em>, assumed to be
<em>UTF-8</em> encoded, to <em>ISO-8859-1</em>.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">data</code></em></span>
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An UTF-8 encoded string.
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Returns the ISO-8859-1 translation of <em><code class="parameter">data</code></em>.
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.utf8-encode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">utf8_encode()</a> - Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8</span> (contains an explanation of UTF-8 encoding)</li>
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