Using UTF-8 charset with PHP - are mb functions required?

Question

These past few days I\'ve been working toward converting my PHP code base from latin1 to UTF-8. I\'ve read the two main solutions are to either replace the single byte funct

Answer 1

There are a number of functions that expect strings to be single byte (And some even presume that it is iso-8859-1). In these cases, you need to be aware of what you're doing and possibly use replacement functions. There is a fairly comprehensive list at: http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/utf-8