Merge pull request #635 from nurolopher/patch-2

Update 05-05-01-PHP-and-UTF8.md
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Josh Lockhart
2016-02-02 08:55:07 -05:00

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@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Additionally, many PHP functions that operate on strings have an optional parame
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()`.
Finally, If you are building an distributed application and cannot be certain that the `mbstring` extension will be
Finally, If you are building a 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
fall back to non UTF-8 functions if not.