[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #55603: PHP 8.2: address deprecation of the utf8_encode() and utf8_decode() functions

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#55603: PHP 8.2: address deprecation of the utf8_encode() and utf8_decode()
functions
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 Reporter:  jrf                                  |       Owner:
                                                 |  SergeyBiryukov
     Type:  task (blessed)                       |      Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  7.0
Component:  General                              |     Version:  6.0
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion php82 dev-feedback has-  |     Focuses:  coding-
  patch has-unit-tests                           |  standards
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Comment (by dmsnell):

 @rodrigosprimo @juanmaguitar we would do well to separate uses of these
 functions in Core as a separate aspect of this ticket, because the
 troubling part about them is neither that they call deprecated functions,
 nor that they call functions which might not exist, but rather that they
 never should have called those functions in the first place.

 in the absence of concrete knowledge about a text encoding we should avoid
 assuming that it’s ISO-8859-1 and avoid converting the raw bytes into
 UTF-8 as if it were.

 Regardless, let’s avoid thinking about `ignore` comments or waiting for
 decisions here: even if `utf8_encode()` were not deprecated, we should
 still remove all traces of them from Core.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55603#comment:99>
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