utf8_decode

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

utf8_decode — Converts a string with ISO-8859-1 characters encoded with UTF-8 to single-byte ISO-8859-1

string utf8_decode ( string $data )

This function decodes data, assumed to be UTF-8 encoded, to ISO-8859-1.

Returns the ISO-8859-1 translation of data.

utf8_encode() - Encodes an ISO-8859-1 string to UTF-8 (contains an explanation of UTF-8 encoding)