utf8_decode Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1 &reftitle.description; stringutf8_decode stringdata This function decodes data, assumed to be UTF-8 encoded, to ISO-8859-1. &reftitle.parameters; data An UTF-8 encoded string. &reftitle.returnvalues; Returns the ISO-8859-1 translation of data. &reftitle.seealso; utf8_encode (contains an explanation of UTF-8 encoding)