Convert ASCII TO UTF-8 Encoding

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user614856 picture user614856 · Feb 13, 2011 · Viewed 156.3k times · Source

How to convert ASCII encoding to UTF8 in PHP

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Quentin picture Quentin · Feb 13, 2011

ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so if a document is ASCII then it is already UTF-8.

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