PHP utf8_decode() Function

Decode a UTF-8 string to ISO-8859-1:

<?php
$text = "\xE0";
echo utf8_encode($text) ."<br>";
echo utf8_decode($text);
?>

Definition and Usage

The utf8_decode() function decodes a UTF-8 string to ISO-8859-1.

This function decodes a string, previously encoded with the utf8_encode() function, back to ISO-8859-1.

utf8_decode(string)

Parameter	Description
string	Required. Specifies a UTF-8 encoded string to decode

Return Value:	The decoded string on success. FALSE on failure
PHP Version:	4.0+