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<?php mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8'); $value = 'g' . chr(0xa4) .'eld'; mb_substitute_character('entity'); var_dump(mb_detect_encoding($value)); $value = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'UTF-8'); var_dump($value, mb_strlen($value));

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