diff --git a/_posts/05-05-01-PHP-and-UTF8.md b/_posts/05-05-01-PHP-and-UTF8.md index 6684510..578656b 100644 --- a/_posts/05-05-01-PHP-and-UTF8.md +++ b/_posts/05-05-01-PHP-and-UTF8.md @@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ Explicitly defining the encoding of your strings in every script will save you a Additionally, many PHP functions that operate on strings have an optional parameter letting you specify the character encoding. You should always explicitly indicate UTF-8 when given the option. For example, `htmlentities()` has an -option for character encoding, and you should always specify UTF-8 if dealing with such strings. Note that as of PHP 5. -4.0, UTF-8 is the default encoding for `htmlentities()` and `htmlspecialchars()`. +option for character encoding, and you should always specify UTF-8 if dealing with such strings. Note that as of PHP 5.4.0, UTF-8 is the default encoding for `htmlentities()` and `htmlspecialchars()`. Finally, If you are building an distributed application and cannot be certain that the `mbstring` extension will be enabled, then consider using the [patchwork/utf8] Composer package. This will use `mbstring` if it is available, and