utf8_(en|de)code removed from php7?

Question

I recently switched to PHP 7 on my development server, which has worked just fine - until now.

Since I updated to PHP 7.0.3-10+deb.sury.org~trusty+1 (ea

Answer 1

As the top voted answer did not work for me i found yet another package for php7 which (obvious by its name) fixed it for me

sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring