PHP utf8_encode() Function

Definition and Usage
The utf8_encode() function encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8.
Unicode is a universal standard, and has been developed to describe all possible characters of all languages plus a lot of symbols with one unique number for each character/symbol.
However, it is not always possible to transfer a Unicode character to another computer reliably. UTF-8 has been developed to transfer a Unicode character from one computer to another
This function returns the encoded string on success, or FALSE on failure.
Syntax
utf8_encode(string)
Parameter | Description |
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string | Required. Specifies the string to encode |
