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<?php $str = 'ä€'; var_dump(strlen($str)); var_dump(mb_detect_encoding($str, 'auto', true)); $iso = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'iso-8859-1', 'utf-8'); var_dump(strlen($str)); var_dump($str); var_dump(mb_detect_encoding($iso, 'utf-8, iso-8859-1', true)); $utf8 = mb_convert_encoding($iso, 'utf-8', 'iso-8859-1'); $utf8 = mb_convert_encoding($utf8, 'utf-8', iso-8859-1);

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