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  <refentry id="function.utf8-decode">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>utf8_decode</refname> 
    <refpurpose>
     Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8
     to single-byte ISO-8859-1.
    </refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <methodsynopsis>
     <type>string</type><methodname>utf8_decode</methodname>
     <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>data</parameter></methodparam>
    </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     This function decodes <parameter>data</parameter>, assumed to be
     <literal>UTF-8</literal> encoded, to <literal>ISO-8859-1</literal>.
    </para>
    <para>
     See <function>utf8_encode</function> for an explaination of UTF-8
     encoding.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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