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

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