- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
// UTF-16 surrogate codepoints have no valid encoding in any UTF form.
// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#U.2BD800_to_U.2BDFFF
$high = "\u{D852}";
$low = "\u{DF62}";
$pair = $high.$low;
var_dump(
@\iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8', $high) === false,
@\iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8', $low) === false,
@\iconv('UTF-8', 'UTF-8', $pair) === false
);
/* Should be:
*
* bool(true)
* bool(true)
* bool(true)
*
* On Windows with 7.0 and 7.1 the result is:
* bool(false)
* bool(false)
* bool(false)
*/